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Definition of Execration

1. Noun. Hate coupled with disgust.

2. Noun. An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group.

3. Noun. The object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated.

Definition of Execration

1. n. The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.

Definition of Execration

1. Noun. An act or instance of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; an imprecation; an expression of utter detestation. ¹

2. Noun. That which is execrated; a detested thing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Execration

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Execration

excyclovergence excystation exduction exeat exeats exec exec. execrable execrableness execrablenesses

execrably execrate execrated execrates execrating execration (current term) execrations execrative execratives execrator

execrators execratory execs exection executability executable executable code executables executant executants

Literary usage of Execration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"BACON'S DEATH, EULOGY, AND execration. [From the Same.] BACON having for some time been besieged by sickness, and now not able to hold out any longer, ..."

2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"The greatest of all traitors, the 6rst apostate of Christianity, betrayed his master, and was followed by the execration of mankind. ..."

3. Jackanapes: Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. The Story of a Short Life by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Horatia K. F. Gatty (1887)
"... absorbed by keeping his hard-mouthed troop-horse in hand, under pain of execration by his neighbors in the m$lte. By and by, when the newspapers came ..."

4. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"... and unanimous cry of reprobation and execration broke out against them from every part of this kingdom. It was perfectly uninfluenced by any con sideral ..."

5. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"Orpheus and others established mysteries, which the initiated swore by oaths of execration not to reveal,—of which mysteries the principal was the adoration ..."

6. Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr (late Vice President of the by Harman Blennerhassett, Israel Smith, David Robertson, United States Circuit Court (4th circuit), Aaron Burr (1808)
"I cannot but regard it with execration. Mr. HAY.—I have nothing to say but to express my surprise at the wonderful misapprehensions of Mr. Botts. ..."

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