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  • noun Plural form of malediction.

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Examples

  • For though this erstwhile Nazi sympathizer would later rain maledictions on the heads of the more extreme racists of his countrymen:

    Wole Soyinka - Nobel Lecture 1986

  • When she heard of the "Band" made by the leaders of the army before Leith for the expulsion of the strangers she is said to have called the maledictions of God upon them who counselled her to persecute the preachers and to refuse the petitions of the best part of the subjects of the realm.

    Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

  • It was laughable to witness the agonised dismay with which the Spaniards viewed the approach of this craft, and to listen to the prayers, vows, and maledictions which issued indiscriminately from their lips as she swept relentlessly down toward us.

    The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba Harry Collingwood 1886

  • The heart of a world in all its maledictions and beauty, the inexhaustible outpouring of life in the darkness of an end that began a long time ago, this breathtaking paroxysm of a novel turns any commonly held vision upside down.

    Book Awards 2009

  • Bush deserves all the “curses and maledictions” that can be dished out.

    Matthew Yglesias » Disrespect 2009

  • My maledictions upon the head of the barbarian turned to blessings.

    EDITORIAL CRIMES – A PROTEST 2010

  • The heart of a world in all its maledictions and beauty, the inexhaustible outpouring of life in the darkness of an end that began a long time ago, this breathtaking paroxysm of a novel turns any commonly held vision upside down.

    November 2008 2008

  • He wished all kinds of maledictions on Cherie Centaur, but never on King Trent.

    Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010

  • The heart of a world in all its maledictions and beauty, the inexhaustible outpouring of life in the darkness of an end that began a long time ago, this breathtaking paroxysm of a novel turns any commonly held vision upside down.

    GG Literary Awards 2008 2008

  • War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.

    Archive 2009-03-01 John M 2009

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