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Execration

Execration Meaning & Definition
Execration Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Execration?

[n] the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
[n] an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
[n] hate coupled with disgust

Synonyms | Synonyms for Execration: abhorrence | abomination | condemnation | curse | detestation | loathing | odium

Related Terms | Find terms related to Execration: abhorrence | abomination | abuse | anathema | Anglophobia | antipathy | anti-Semitism | assailing | assault | attack | aversion | ban | berating | bigotry | bitter words | blackening | blasphemy | commination | contumely | curse | cursing | cussing | damnation | denunciation | despitefulness | detestation | diatribe | dislike | evil eye | excommunication | fulmination | hard words | hate | hatred | hex | imprecation | invective | jawing | jeremiad | loathing | malevolence | malice | malignity | malison | malocchio | misandry | misanthropy | misogyny | odium | onslaught | peeve | pet peeve | philippic | phobia | profanity | proscription | race hatred | racism | rating | repugnance | revilement | Russophobia | screed | spite | spitefulness | swearing | thundering | tirade | tongue-lashing | vials of hate | vials of wrath | vilification | vituperation | whammy | xenophobia

See Also | anathema | denouncement | denunciation | disgust | hate | hatred | imprecation | malediction | object

Execration In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex`e*cra"tion\, n. [L. execratio, exsecratio: cf. F. ex['e]cration.] 1. The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed. Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations. --Shak. 2. That which is execrated; a detested thing. Ye shall be an execration and . . . a curse. --Jer. xlii. 18. Syn: See {Malediction}.

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