execration

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With a frightful yell of mingled hatred and execration, the seething human mass bore down upon him!

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  1. noun The act of cursing.
  2. noun A curse.
  3. noun Something that is cursed or loathed.

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  • Surely the names of these men deserve to be held in execration, and placed by the side of Cauchon's in the historic pillory of everlasting infamy Illustration: St. OUEN—ROUEN Meanwhile the University of Paris were deliberating upon their answer to the twelve articles. —  Joan of Arc
  • Much as I denounce and deprecate his crime—holding him to be worthy of all execration, and so seeped in blood that the excuses of a century will fail to lift him out of the atmosphere of common felons—I still, at every new developement, stand farther back in surprise and terror at the wonderful resources and extraordinary influence of one whom I had learned to consider a mere Thespian, full of sound, fury, and assertion. —  THE LIFE, CRIME, AND CAPTURE OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH
  • It was a raucous howl of execration, a bellow of rage, inarticulate, deafening A tornado of confusion swept whirling from wall to wall and the madness of the moment seized irresistibly upon Presley. —  The Octopus : A story of California
  • He checked all swearing from the men under his command, and rebuked it, although he could not prevent it, in the first-mate; who, to annoy him, seldom made his appearance on deck without making use of some execration or another. —  Newton Forster The Merchant Service
  • Every one spoke of the Revolution with execration, and of the Emperor with satisfaction. —  Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
 

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derision ·  detestation ·  reprobation ·  obloquy ·  jeer ·  taunt ·  loathe ·  disapprobation ·  opprobrium ·  ignominy ·  malediction ·  odium
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  1. = French exécration = Spanish execracion = Portuguese execração = Italian esecrazione, from Latin execratio(n-), exsecratio(n-), a cursing, from execrare, curse: see execrate.
 

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/ɛksəˈkreɪʃən/
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