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Definition of Imprecation

1. Noun. The act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult). "He suffered the imprecations of the mob"

Definition of Imprecation

1. n. The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.

Definition of Imprecation

1. Noun. The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone; a prayer that a curse or calamity may befall someone. ¹

2. Noun. A curse. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imprecation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imprecation

Literary usage of Imprecation

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

1. The Hedaya, Or Guide: A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr] [al-Marghīnānī, Charles Hamilton (1870)
"in ; but after the husband's acknowledgment, the imprecation no longer remains either ... A husband receding from imprecation must be punished for slander. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"A curse ; an imprecation. (.-I.-N.) Sometimes a verb, to curse. See Reliq. ... Constantly an imprecation, and interjection. DAWDY. A slattern. North. DA WE. ..."

3. The Muhammadan Law: Being a Digest of the Sunní Code in Part and of the by Shama Churun Sircar (1875)
"The proposition whether a child of imprecation would inherit from the ... A child of imprecation inherits from his or her mother's relatives as well as from ..."

4. Sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions by Francis Atterbury (1820)
"THE HORRID imprecation OF THE JEWS, AND THE JUSTICE AND WISDOM OF GOD IN ... I will shew, in how wonderful a manner this imprecation was fulfilled on the ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and accent. with line, couplet with couplet, strophe with antis- trophe, in the lyric upbuilding of the poetic picture or imprecation or exhortation. ..."

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