About The Word Execration
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Execration
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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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