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execration|ɛksɪˈkreɪʃən|
[ad. L. execrātiōn-em (exsecrātiōn-em), n. of action f. execrā-ri (exsecrā-ri) to execrate. Cf. Fr. exécration.]
1. The action of execrating.
†a. The action of solemnly laying under a curse; an instance of this. Obs. or arch.
1382Wyclif 2 Chron. xv. 15 Thei sworen to the Lord with a grete voice..with execracioun. c1585R. Browne Answ. to Cartwright 34 The power of the word..to rebuke and giue ouer to execration. 1652Benlowes Theoph. Author's Prayer 21 The execration of the Son of Thy Love. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 84 To assist with the religious ceremony of execration. 1754–62Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxi. 210 The ecclesiastics..kept the world in subjection by holy execrations. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm. Gen. xxvi. 28 An oath of execration on the transgressor.
b. The utterance of curses (as an expression of hatred).
1688in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 379 IV. 174 The Lord Chancellor was taken and brought amid universal execration of the People before the Lord Mayor. 1769Robertson Chas. V, III. viii. 104 The name of Maurice was mentioned, with execration. 1840Macaulay Clive 79 A tempest of execration and derision..burst on the servants of the Company.
c. Utter detestation; intense abhorrence.
[1557N. T. (Genev.) 1 Cor. xvi. 22 If any man loue not the Lord Iesus Christe, let him be had in execration.] 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 11/2 It [the title pope] is now worthilie come into contempt and execration. a1699Stillingfleet (J.), The Indians, at naming the devil, did spit on the ground in token of execration. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. xiv. 282 The Peruvian Indians held the name..in execration. 1848‘L. Mariotti’ Italy I. i. 91 The Sicilian Vespers have long been made a subject of horror and execration.
2. An uttered curse; an anathema, an imprecation.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 949 All the Country..with Execrations detested them. 1603B. Jonson Sejanus v. x, With such black and bitter execrations..she fills the air. 1650B. Discolliminium 21 The Romane proverbiall execration, abi in malam Crucem. 1793E. Parsons Woman as she should be II. 207, I could write volumes..in execrations against the match. 1820Keats Eve St. Agnes x, Lords, Whose very dogs would execrations howl Against his lineage. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets iv. 100 A man who..would have been hunted from society with execrations.
3. That which is execrated; an object of cursing.
1611Bible Jer. xliv. 12 They shall be an execration and a reproach. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xiv. 22 Clumsy Poet⁓rabble, an age's execration! |