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Example sentences for "anathema"

Lexicographically close words:
anastigmat; anastomose; anastomoses; anastomosing; anastomosis; anathemas; anathematise; anathematised; anathematising; anathematize
  1. The boats were soon on board; from the time that the cutter had been hove-to, every stroke of their oars having been accompanied with a nautical anathema from the crews upon the head of their commander.

  2. Anathema is the weapon,” he exclaims—unconscious of his own future—“which lays low the heretics.

  3. The greatest cause of human alienation has been religion because each party has considered the belief of the other as anathema and deprived of the mercy of God.

  4. All are evidences of God; therefore, how shall we be justified in debasing and belittling them, uttering anathema and preventing them from drawing near unto His mercy?

  5. Si quis dixerit supremam in Ecclesia potestatem non residere in universae Ecclesiae capite, sed in episcoporum pluralitate--anathema sit.

  6. But that was not enough, without smiting down the opponents of the doctrine by a solemn anathema, as follows, "Si quis dixerit non nisi accedente consensu Episcoporum Romanum Pontificem errare non posse, anathema sit.

  7. This anathema would inevitably fall on every one who is acquainted with Church history and patristic literature.

  8. The subjoined anathema against every one who refuses to acknowledge that laws are annulled by the ordinances of the Church (i.

  9. When these lines were written, the Bishop and his theologian had no notion, or at least no knowledge, of the third anathema of the third chapter, which was afterwards made still more rigorous.

  10. And thus the infallibilist decree, as it is now to be received under anathema by the Catholic world, is an eminently Spanish production, as is fitting for a doctrine which was born and reared under the shadow of the Inquisition.

  11. A solemn anathema is pronounced against Nestorius and Eutyches; against all heretics by whom Christ is divided, or confounded, or reduced to a phantom.

  12. Anathema to the tome of Leo and the synod of Chalcedon!

  13. The first of these royal converts lost his crown and his life; and the rebel army was sanctified by the abuna, who hurled an anathema at the apostate, and absolved his subjects from their oath of fidelity.

  14. Canada, the land of Papist priests and bloody Indians, was the especial terror of the New England settlers, and the anathema maranatha of Puritan pulpits.

  15. The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean.

  16. By the faith of a Vagre, old as I am, I have a good mind to deserve your anathema by letting loose upon your sacred back a shower of blows with the scabbard of my sword.

  17. Anathema upon whosoever should dare to lift a sacrilegious hand against a priest of the Church, an anointed of the Lord!

  18. On the other hand, Viswamitra became the type of that immoral divinity which received its Iranian anathema in Ahriman.

  19. His opponent in his own party was Protest walking on two legs and thundering anathema through a mat of mustaches that made him a marked figure in any throng.

  20. The comment of the lord of Canibas was the anathema that he growled to himself.

  21. That prelate entered cordially into the cause, and launching forth his anathema against the Stedinger as heretics and witches, encouraged all true believers to assist in their extermination.

  22. Döllinger and his partisans except submission to the decrees of the council, or to the anathema by which they were fortified.

  23. The anathema of the church has smitten them, and they are doomed to wither and die, and go into oblivion.

  24. If we stopped for a half hour we should be greeted by the anathema of a lecturing committee.

  25. Under such anathema the body has slept securely.

  26. The Fathers of the Church called down anathema upon it, the Roman laws prohibited it, but all in vain.

  27. It was anciently used as anathema and that use is still in force to this day.

  28. As he ended his anathema a rap was heard on the door.

  29. It seemed strange to the mind of this girl-theologian that, without practising religion, a soul could be received into grace by the divine justice; for surely the anathema is clear: Out of the Church there is no salvation.

  30. Yes, reader, God the Holy Ghost hurls His awful anathema at any one who presumes to add the law of Moses to the gospel of Christ--any one who attempts to place Christians under the law.

  31. The Women's Rescue League met recently at Washington and launched a double-shotted anathema at the female bike fiend.

  32. Had the "slight exposure which brought on a fatal sickness," been the result of prowling in his neighbor's barn instead of his boudoir his name would be anathema forevermore.

  33. Footnote 10: See this anathema in the Councils, tom.

  34. Footnote 2: For the anathema in the pigeon's nest, see Pachymer, (l.


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