Crossword clues for execration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Execration \Ex`e*cra"tion\, n. [L. execratio, exsecratio: cf. F. ex['e]cration.]
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The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.
Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations.
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That which is execrated; a detested thing.
Ye shall be an execration and . . . a curse.
--Jer. xlii. 18.Syn: See Malediction.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "cursing, act of laying under a curse," from Latin execrationem (nominative execratio) "malediction, curse," noun of action from past participle stem of execrari "to hate, curse," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + sacrare "to devote to holiness or to destruction, consecrate," from sacer "sacred" (see sacred). From 1560s as "an uttered curse."
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act or instance of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; an imprecation; an expression of utter detestation. 2 That which is execrated; a detested thing.
WordNet
n. hate coupled with disgust [syn: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, loathing, odium]
an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group [syn: condemnation, curse]
the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
Usage examples of "execration".
In his own dominions the voice of execration has been raised against him.
And for four hundred years that lie has held its place in history, the very cornerstone of all the execration that has been heaped upon the name of Borgia.
It was a raucous howl of execration, a bellow of rage, inarticulate, deafening.
I had found the unrelenting foe and the escaped murderer of Isora, the object of the execration and vindictiveness of years,--not one single throb of wrath, not one single sentiment of vengeance, was in my breast.
She must be buried without priest or rites or absolution, only with execration, and in unhallowed ground, her grave unmarked.
With an execration he again turned and rushed down the stairs, hoping by a vigorous effort to cast back the foe.
Catherine to the execration of the humanity of our day, shows at the base of these panels and close to the floor a rather heavy foot-board, which can be lifted, and beneath which still remain the ingenious springs which move the panels.
The primary meaning, then, of Gehenna, is a valley outside of Jerusalem, a place of corruption and fire, only to be thought of with execration and shuddering.
A flaming execration blasted the whole heathen world, 22 and a metaphysical quibble doomed ninety nine of every hundred in Christian lands.
If we fail in this great duty now when we have the power, we shall deserve to receive the execration of history and of all future ages.
But you shall perish after me in daylight, and amid the execrations of the people.
I know that I told bur I was the brother, the rival, the enemy of the man she loved,--I know that I uttered the fiercest and the wildest menaces and execrations,--I know that my vehemence so overpowered and terrified her that her mind was scarcely less clouded--less lost, rather--than my own.
Peel and Goulbourn with the most bitter execrations, on account of their supposed apostasy.
As we realized what the whole affair meant, we relieved our surcharged feelings with a few general yells of execration upon Rebels generally, and upon those around us particularly, and resumed our occupation of cooking rations, killing lice, and discussing the prospects of exchange and escape.
It was not Sambo, however, but Legree, who was pursuing them with violent execrations.