different between cursing vs anathema

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?s??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??s??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s??

Etymology 1

From curse +? -ing.

Verb

cursing

1. present participle of curse

Etymology 2

From Middle English cursing, cursyng, cursunge, from Old English cursung (“cursing”), equivalent to curse +? -ing.

Noun

cursing (plural cursings)

1. The act of one who curses.

Translations

Anagrams

• curings

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin anathema (“curse, person cursed, offering”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ??????? (anáthema, “something dedicated, especially dedicated to evil”), from ????????? (anatíth?mi, “I set upon, offer as a votive gift”), from ??? (aná, “upon”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “I put, place”). The Ancient Greek term was influenced by Hebrew ???? (herem), leading to the sense of "accursed," especially in Ecclesiastical writers.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??næ??m?/
• Hyphenation: a?na?the?ma

Noun

anathema (plural anathemas or anathemata)

1. (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.]

   Synonyms: ban, curse

2. (by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.

   Synonym: bête noire
3. (literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
   • 1920, Edwin Alrington /Robinson, The Three Taverns, "The Wandering Jew"

     I trembled at his ringing wealth

     Of manifold anathemas […]

   • 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 30:

4. (ecclesiastical) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. [from 1520s]
   • 1611, King James Version, 1 Corinthians 16:22:

     If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

   • 1707, John Locke, An Essay for Understanding St. Paul's Epistles, by Consulting St. Paul Himself, "The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans," Section VIII:

     ???????, accur?ed, ???, which the Septuagint renders Anathema, ?ignifies Per?ons or Things devoted to De?truction and Extermination. The Jewi?h Nation were now an Anathema, de?tin'd to De?truction. St. Paul to expre?s his Affection to them, ?ays, he could wi?h to ?ave them from it, to become an Anathema and be de?troy'd him?elf.

Derived terms

Translations

References

New Advent: The Catholic on-line encyclopedia.

Further reading

• anathema on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (anáthema, “something dedicated, especially dedicated to evil”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?na.t?e.ma/, [ä?nät???mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?na.te.ma/, [??n??t??m?]

Noun

anathema n (genitive anathematis); third declension

1. offering (especially the life of a person)
2. curse
3. excommunication

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

• German: Anathema

References

• anathema in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anathema in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)