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Definition of Imprecations
1. imprecation [n] - See also: imprecation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imprecations
Literary usage of Imprecations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1903)
"THE imprecations IN THE PSALMS. IT is usual to speak of "the imprecatory psalms,"
but it may well be questioned whether the phrase is not a misleading one, ..."
2. Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregorson Campbell (1900)
"THE imprecations, which form so important a part of the vocabulary of ...
Most Gaelic imprecations are mere exclamations, condemnatory not so much of the ..."
3. The Monitor by Hervey Wilbur (1824)
"THE imprecations found in some of the Psalms have appeared to some pious persons
to be inconsistent with the spirit of true benevolence ; and have been ..."
4. The Syrian Christ by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany (1916)
"CHAPTER II imprecations AGAIN, the Oriental's consideration of life ... him as
pious in his imprecations and curses as he is in his aspirational prayer. ..."
5. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of by John McElroy (1878)
"... curses, and foul epithets in French, German and English, until he fairly
frothed at the mouth. There were 'HE SHRIEKED imprecations AND CURSES. ..."
6. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"It was, perhaps, on the occasion of sacrificing the red ox, that the imprecations
mentioned in Herodotus and Plutarch were uttered by the priest upon the ..."
7. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1876)
"The imprecations are alien, perhaps even repugnant, to our Christian ideas,
because they are ... And its imprecations, if they served no other purpose, ..."
8. Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a by Charles Swan (1824)
"... imprecations. GERVASE of Tilbury (91) relates a very remarkable occurrence,
but at the same time full of excellent caution and prudent exhortation. ..."
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