malediction

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God's Angry Man is neither an expos� nor a malediction, and [Dr Gene] Scott is never branded a crackpot - which is not only the easiest road [Werner]

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  1. noun The calling down of a curse.
  2. noun A curse.
  3. noun Slander.

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  • You are right; all the hatred, malediction, and persecution which beset the demon must also beset the flesh and all its motions There is, then, no extremity of insult too great to be put up with and to be looked upon as deserved?—No Contempt, insult, and calumny should not then disturb our peace of mind?—No. —  Recollections of My Youth
  • It's a name that was given to Jesus by medieval rabbis who wanted to actually pronounce a malediction, a curse, on Him. —  Israel Matzav
  • God's Angry Man is neither an expos� nor a malediction, and [Dr Gene] Scott is never branded a crackpot - which is not only the easiest road [Werner] —  GreenCine Daily
  • But death upon the cross was a death of malediction, as we read Deut. 21:23: "He is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree." —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
  • Wherefore the saint punished him with the sentence of his malediction, and foretold that not one of his seed should reign after him, but that his kingdom should be transferred to Kerellus, his younger brother. —  The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
 

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  1. from Middle English malediccion, from Old French malediction, also(maleïçon, maleïsson, later English malison) F. malédiction = Provencal maledictio, maledicio = Spanish maldicion = Portuguese maldição = Italian maladizione, maledizione, from Latin malediction(n-), evil speaking, abuse, Late Latin the act of cursing, from maledicere, speak evil of: see maledict, v. Cf. malison.
 

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/mæləˈdɪkʃən/
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