The process or act of pronouncing an anathema; formal religious condemnation or excommunication.
From anathematise plus -ation (the act or result). Describes the formal procedure of cursing or excommunicating someone.
The Catholic Church kept detailed records of anathematisations—they were official legal procedures with witnesses and everything, not just angry priests shouting curses.
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