Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Imprecating evil; cursing; denouncing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
- noun A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
word used forcursing ; anoath .
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Examples
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December, on which day Nigger Question (in 'Fraser') had come out with execrative shrieks from several people - J.S. Mill for one; who indeed had personally quite parted from me, a year or two before, I knew not and to this day know not why; nor in fact ever much inquired, since it was his silly pleasure, poor Mill!
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Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative Roman History intercalated an alphabetic letter; and so they continue Ta-r-tars, of fell Tartarean nature, to this day.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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If there is something to be done outside that is very execrative, it needs to be done early in the morning or late in the afternoon.
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