The Only Use of
anathema
in
The Scarlet Letter
- If the children gathered about her, as they sometimes did, Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them, with shrill, incoherent exclamations, that made her mother tremble, because they had so much the sound of a witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(anathema) someone or something that is intensely disliked