Anathema vs Apostasy - What's the difference?
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A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
By extension, something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
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An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
* 2002 , Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, p. 30:
Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
* John Locke
The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
* 1871 , James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth , page 394
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:What had he said, what had he done, after all, to give them the right to fasten on him the charge of apostasy ? He had always been a free critic of everything, and it was natural that, on certain occasions, in the little parlour in Lisson Grove, he should have spoken in accordance with that freedom; but it was only with the Princess that he had permitted himself really to rail at the democracy and given the full measure of his scepticism.
Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith.
As nouns the difference between anathema and apostasy
is that anathema is a ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed while apostasy is the renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.anathema
English
(wikipedia anathema)Noun
(en-noun)- That was a curse from which no flight was possible: the anathema of a man who had once known holiness.
- The Jewish nation were an anathema destined to destruction.
Derived terms
() * anathematic * anathematise * anathematismSee also
*References
New Advent: The Catholic on-line encyclopedia. ----apostasy
English
Noun
(apostasies)- The King of Navarre suddenly abandoned his party and went over to the Catholics. The explanation of his apostasy was as simple as it was base: Navarre had no confidence in the success of his cause, and he cared little in his heart for anything but women and vanity.