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How to pronounce “anathema”

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Real speech example: The US Bombed Iran. Now What?has been anathema to the Americans and the Israelis
Definition summary: (ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed. [from early 17th c.]

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The US Bombed Iran. Now What?

has been anathema to the Americans and the Israelis

[Noun]
(ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed. [from early 17th c.]
(by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
(literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
(ecclesiastical) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment. [from 1520s]

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