Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A curse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A formal malediction; a special curse invoked or denounced; a form of words expressing a curse; a curse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Poetic Malediction; curse; execration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
curse .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The malison of her muliebrity allows niddering males opportunity for oppugnant vilipend.
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Reproof with threats sore terror, frightful malison.
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Yet, for men's sakes whom thy vast malison Must wither innocent of enmity, Be not withdrawn, dark arm, thy spoilure done, Safe to the bosom of our prosperity.
Books The Daily Growler 2006
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The mother puts her malison, or curse, upon him, but he rides off.
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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Or else they may dread the malison that all men have who will not do them, when they had goods to do them with.
The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901
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Glasgow was the most loathsome den north of Tweed, almost the only such den, -- his malison upon Glasgow!
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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Would her father's curse be on her, or the still heavier malison of a creature mansworn, false to her dearest vow?
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
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I give to thee in my steads of Walbrugham, from me and mine to thee and thine aye and for ever; and God's malison on his head who this gainsays! ''
Ivanhoe 1892
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She laid a malison on my chauffeur's potatoes -- I had one once -- and (as he told me) blighted the year's crop.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Does a bookseller misdirect a parcel, he exclaims, 'My malison on all Blockheadisms and Torpid Infidelities of which this world is full.'
Obiter Dicta Augustine Birrell 1891
whichbe commented on the word malison
Curse, malediction. (From WWFTD)
Also a funny taunt for someone named Alison.
June 7, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word malison
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011