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    execration


    1. Dramatic representations, besides, frequently exposing their artifices to public ridicule, and sometimes even to public execration, were, upon that account, more than all other diversions, the objects of their peculiar abhorrence


    2. execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more


    3. shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach


    4. 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:


    5. 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:


    6. The Chief Lector had died casting the execration, and


    7. “With a standard execration, you destroy a statue that


    8. But it’s possible that a statue used for execration was


    9. “So,” Sadie said, “we could cast an execration spel on Apophis, but


    10. conclusion that your only hope of victory was a shadow execration

    11. “A shadow execration,” I repeated


    12. execration statue of Apophis, which I couldn’t tel my uncle about


    13. understand the shadow execration spel


    14. for an execration spel


    15. find a new sort of execration spel that might stop Apophis for good


    16. capture it, and how to cast the execration


    17. “—then for the execration,” he said, “you’l need to be in front of


    18. reverse the wording of an execration


    19. myself! But instead of casting the execration, I’l blackmail Apophis, see?


    20. “The execration wil be easy,” she said

    21. “Can you cast the execration without it?” Bes asked


    22. that the execration would require more magic than Carter and I had,


    23. Execration: A curse declared; the act of cursing


    24. And yet, in the midst of this outburst of execration and upbraiding, I found excuses for her, saying it was no wonder that a young girl in the seclusion of her parents' house, trained and schooled to obey them always, should have been ready to yield to their wishes when they offered her for a husband a gentleman of such distinction, wealth, and noble birth, that if she had refused to accept him she would have been thought out of her senses, or to have set her affection elsewhere, a suspicion injurious to her fair name and fame


    25. The historian who had enough elevation of soul to write of Guzman Bento: "Yet this monster, imbrued in the blood of his countrymen, must not be held unreservedly to the execration of future years


    26. "Shame! Shame!" "Give him a hearing!" "Put him out!" "Shove him off the platform!" "Fair play!" emerged from a general roar of amusement or execration


    27. The quick vision that his life was after all a failure, that he was a dishonored man, and must quail before the glance of those towards whom he had habitually assumed the attitude of a reprover—that God had disowned him before men and left him unscreened to the triumphant scorn of those who were glad to have their hatred justified—the sense of utter futility in that equivocation with his conscience in dealing with the life of his accomplice, an equivocation which now turned venomously upon him with the full-grown fang of a discovered lie:—all this rushed through him like the agony of terror which fails to kill, and leaves the ears still open to the returning wave of execration


    28. Eppes) has said this order of blockade has not a single feature of a regular blockade; in this, the gentleman is tolerably correct, and when he denounces, what in the fashionable cant of the day are called paper blockades, I join most heartily in the execration


    29. If obligations of friendship do exist, why does Great Britain rend those ties asunder, and open the bleeding wounds of former conflicts? Or does the obligation of friendship exist on the part of the United States alone? I have never thought that the ties of religion, of blood, of language, and of commerce, would justify or sanctify insult and injury—on the contrary, that a premeditated wrong from the hand of a friend created more sensibility, and deserved the greater chastisement and the higher execration


    30. The danger of having provinces of a foreign power on our frontier is too well disclosed by the late communication of the President (concerning Henry's mission)—a disclosure which must combine in the execration of the project it developed, every man in the country, and every honest man in every country

    31. This subject has for many years engaged the attention of both nations; it has been a fruitful theme of execration and declamation for almost every editor and orator of the age


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    Synonyms for "execration"

    execration condemnation curse abhorrence abomination detestation loathing odium

    "execration" definitions

    hate coupled with disgust


    an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group


    the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated