Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Grecized form of an Aramaic expression meaning ‘the Lord cometh’ (or according to some ‘the Lord hath come’), found in 1 Cor. xvi. 22 immediately after the word anathema, but having no grammatical connection with it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun “Our Lord cometh;” -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, “May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes.” See Anathema maranatha, under
anathema .
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Examples
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He taught a form of meditation using the word maranatha (Aramaic for "Come, Lord") as a mantra.
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“If he thought you had in any way played him false,” he later remembered, “you were anathema and maranatha forever.”
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“If he thought you had in any way played him false,” he later remembered, “you were anathema and maranatha forever.”
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“You could offer Clemens offences that would anger other men and he did not mind,” William Dean Howells recalled, “…but if he thought you had in any way played him false, you were anathema and maranatha forever.”
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“You could offer Clemens offences that would anger other men and he did not mind,” William Dean Howells recalled, “…but if he thought you had in any way played him false, you were anathema and maranatha forever.”
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If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha.
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While the war went on, half of the men who sent the news of it out to the civilised world found the Turk _anathema maranatha_, and the other half were persuaded that the Bulgarian was a beast altogether despicable and cowardly.
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To the Turkish peasant dirt is anathema maranatha; in his own station of life he is the cleanest man in the world, and if there is any dirtier person to be found than a
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It had, indeed, a worse fate in England, where hard names were supplemented by harsh acts, for in 1581 it was not only pronounced _anathema maranatha_ by act of Parliament, but the people were authorized to institute search for it in their neighbors 'dye-houses, and were empowered to destroy it wherever found.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
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If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision
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