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execration

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ex·e·cra·tion  (ks-krshn)
n.
1. The act of cursing.
2. A curse.
3. Something that is cursed or loathed.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.execrationexecration - hate coupled with disgust            
abhorrence, detestation, loathing, odium, abomination
disgust - strong feelings of dislike
hate, hatred - the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
2.execration - an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
curse, condemnation
denouncement, denunciation - a public act of denouncing
anathema - a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
imprecation, malediction - the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob"
3.execration - the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
object - the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
Translations
execration [ˌeksɪˈkreɪʃən] N (frm) → execración f (frm), abominación f (frm)
execration
n
(= hatred) → Abscheu m
(= curse) → Fluch m, → Verwünschung f
execration [ˌɛksɪˈkreɪʃ/ən] n (frm) → esecrazione f
execration [ˌɛksɪˈkreɪʃ/ən] n (frm) → esecrazione f


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So with a muttered execration I left the fellow to his fate, and clapping spurs to my own horse, galloped away, excited by a combination of feelings it would not be easy to analyse; and perhaps, if I did so, the result would not be very creditable to my disposition; for I am not sure that a species of exultation in what I had done was not one principal concomitant.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
Felton only expressed, with regard to the duke, the feeling of execration which all the English had declared toward him whom the Catholics themselves called the extortioner, the pillager, the debauchee, and whom the Puritans styled simply Satan.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
And not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties of abstinence, of debt, of solitude, of unpopularity,--but it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men, and to familiarize himself with disgusting forms of disease, with sounds of execration, and the vision of violent death.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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