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    execrate


    1. Oh, you hard hearted, you shall find no peace, therefore shall you execrate your days and the years of your life shall perish; And the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal execration and you shall find no mercy:


    2. Oh you hard hearted you shall find no peace therefore shall you execrate your days and the years of your life shall perish; And the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal execration and you shall find no mercy:


    3. --But I lose all patience--and execrate


    4. Instead of a rude mixture of sailors, soldiers, and those belonging to the humblest grade of life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society,—magistrates who had resigned their office during the usurper's reign; officers who had deserted from the imperial army and joined forces with Conde; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile would convert into a martyr, and fifteen of restoration elevate to the rank of a god


    5. He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently


    6. I execrate these vampires who and laces when our men are dying for want of quinine, who load their boats with tea and are sucking the lifeblood of the men who follow Robert Lee—these men who are making the very name of blockader a stench in the nostrils of all patriotic men


    7. Some admire it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria


    8. There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore


    9. I abhor psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest yet more any one who should maintain the contrary


    10. "I don't execrate this Government

    11. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me? Why do you not hate Felix, who drove his friend from his door with contumely? Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child? Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate beings! I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on


    12. What would you think of a man, to whom you were bound by the most sacred ties, who would plunder you of your substance, aim a deadly blow at your honor, and in the hour of confidence endeavor to bury a dagger in your bosom? Would you, sir, proclaim to the world your affection for this miscreant of society, after this conduct, and endeavor to interest your audience with the ties of kindred that bound you to each other? So let it be with nations, and there will be neither surprise nor lamentation that we execrate a Government so hostile to our independence—for it is from the Government that we meet with such multiplied injury, and to that object is our hatred directed


    13. What, sir, go to war when that part of the country which has most of its wealth, strength, and resources, is decidedly opposed to it! go to war for commercial and maritime rights, when the people of that part of the country which is principally interested in its commerce and navigation, openly execrate war!


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    Synonyms for "execrate"

    accurse anathematise anathematize anathemise anathemize comminate execrate abhor abominate loathe

    "execrate" definitions

    find repugnant


    curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment