Bane vs Anathema - What's the difference?
bane | anathema |
A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse
* Herbert
(dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants
(obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer
(obsolete) destruction; death
* Milton
A disease of sheep; the rot.
To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
To be the bane of.
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
As nouns the difference between bane and anathema
is that bane is a cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse while anathema is a ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.As a verb bane
is to kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.bane
English
(wikipedia bane)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bane, from (etyl) bana, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the bane of my existence
- Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.
- The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane .
Antonyms
* (affliction or curse) boonDerived terms
* baneberry * baneful * boon and bane * wolfsbaneVerb
(ban)Etymology 2
From (etyl) northern dialect ban, from (etyl)References
*Anagrams
* * ----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.