execration : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: execration	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
execration n hate coupled with disgust [syn: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium] an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group Synonym(s): execration, condemnation, curse the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Execration \Ex`ecra"tion\, n. [L. execratio, exsecratio: cf. F. ex[82]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}.