Difference between revisions of "Anathematized - anathemized (error)"
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‘'''<strike>Anathemised</strike>’''' is just '''anathematised''' with a syllable left out, through either ignorance or laziness. If you want to be considered a good student, try to avoid your tutor’s '''anathemata''', by being neither ignorant nor lazy. | ‘'''<strike>Anathemised</strike>’''' is just '''anathematised''' with a syllable left out, through either ignorance or laziness. If you want to be considered a good student, try to avoid your tutor’s '''anathemata''', by being neither ignorant nor lazy. | ||
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Revision as of 18:23, 2 March 2007
Although anathemised has been seen in print, as well as in students’ writing, it is not recorded in the second edition of OED. This is strong evidence that it is not a good word.
Use the traditional anathematised instead. (It derives from anathema, which is a Greek word for ‘a curse’, or the expression of a desire that God may abandon the person cursed. Nowadays, anathematise has lost much of its religious meaning. It usually means a strong expression of disgust or disagreement, often leading to such proposals as one to expel the offender from the association, club, party etc to which both the person offended and the offender belong. The plural of the Greek word, anathemata, means ‘a collection of curses’.)
‘Anathemised’ is just anathematised with a syllable left out, through either ignorance or laziness. If you want to be considered a good student, try to avoid your tutor’s anathemata, by being neither ignorant nor lazy.
