bandlysning — meaning in English
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English meaning
- anathema noun Something or someone intensely disliked or considered completely unacceptable.
- excommunication noun The formal act of expelling someone from membership in a church, especially the Catholic church.
Senses
bandlysning is used for these senses in English:
- anathema (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.]
- excommunication The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
anathema — full definition
- noun Something or someone intensely disliked or considered completely unacceptable.
- noun A formal curse or condemnation, especially one pronounced by a church.