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ANATHEMA

someone or something intensely disliked or loathed

The meaning of the word anathema is someone or something intensely disliked or loathed.

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impartialnot partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
omnipotentalmighty
capillaryresembling a hair especially in slender elongated form
maritalof or relating to marriage or the married state
fructifyto bear fruit
proscribeto publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state
enunciateto make a definite or systematic statement of
centigraderelating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point
accedeto express approval or give consent : to agree to a request or demand