execration

ex·e·cra·tion (

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1. The act of cursing.

2. A curse.

3. Something that is cursed or loathed.

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Noun	1.	execration - 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

(= hatred) → Abscheu m

(= curse) → Fluch m, → Verwünschung f

execration [ˌɛksɪˈkreɪʃ/ən] n (frm) → esecrazione f

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abhorrence abomination anathema blasphemy condemnation Corsned curse Denouncement denunciation detestation disgust execrable execrably execrate hate hatred imprecation loathing malediction	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	excursion train excursionism excursionist excursive excursus excusable excusable homicide excusably Excusation Excusator excusatory excuse excuse-me excused Excuseless Excusement Excuser Excuss Excussion exeat exec exec. execrable execrably execrate execration Execrative Execratory Exect Exection executability executable executant executary execute execute order executed Executer executing executing commander executing commander (nuclear weapons) execution execution of instrument execution planning execution sale execution speed executioner executive executive agency executive agent executive agreement	Exeat Exeat Exeats Exeats EXEC EXEC EXEC EXEC 2 EXEC 8 exec. ExecComm EXECCTL Execias Execoetidae Execoetidae EXECR execrable execrable execrableness execrableness execrably execrably execrate execrate execrated execrated execrates execrates execrating execrating execration execrations execrations execrative execrative execrator execrator execratory execratory Execrement Execrement Execrement execs execs Exect Exection Exectuable Exectuable Exectuable binary Exectuable binary Execucao hipotecaria executability executable executable executable executable executable executable Executable and Linking Format Executable and Translatable Unified Modeling Language Executable Architecture

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abhorrence
abomination
anathema
blasphemy
condemnation
Corsned
curse
Denouncement
denunciation
detestation
disgust
execrable
execrably
execrate
hate
hatred
imprecation
loathing
malediction

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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