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anathematisation

anathematisation is the alternative form of anathematization.

Meaning of anathematization

Noun

anathematization (countable and uncountable, plural anathematizations)

  1. The act of anathematizing; vigorous denunciation.
    • He must have been a boy of spirit and resource, to get here on a stopped allowance of five sous a week; but he did it somehow, and he burst in on his father, and pleaded his sister's cause. Venerable parent promptly resorts to anathematization, and turns him out.1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “The Man from Somewhere”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, 1st book (The Cup and the Lip), page 11

Forms of anathematisation

pluralanathematisations

Questions about anathematisation

What is anathematisation the alternative form of?
Anathematisation is the alternative form of anathematization.

Words near anathematisation in the dictionary

  1. anathemas
  2. anathemata
  3. anathematic
  4. anathematical
  5. anathematically
  6. anathematisation
  7. anathematisations
  8. anathematise
  9. anathematised
  10. anathematiser
  11. anathematisers

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