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单词 execration
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execration
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The noun execration means an angry denouncement or curse. A protester's furious execration of the police might end up getting her arrested.
Use the word execration when you talk about something that's yelled or muttered angrily. When you declare, "May the god Apollo strike you down for saying that!" it's an execration. The person at whom you hurl the execration can also be called an execration, or an object of condemnation. The root word is execrari, which means "to hate or curse" in Latin.
WORD FAMILY
execration: execrations+/execrable: execrably/execrate: execrable, execrated, execrates, execrating, execration
USAGE EXAMPLES
“So long as there are Americans, his memory will be cherished with execration and loathing.”
Salon(Sep 23, 2014)
Even more telling is the all-purpose execration, common among Shiites at least, “Kharab Saddam!”
New York Times(Jul 14, 2014)
No body of men ever assembled under such universal execration and odium as did these delegates.
Headley, Joel Tyler, The Second War with England, Vol. 2...(2012)
1
n hate coupled with disgust
Syn|Hyper
abhorrence, abomination, detestation, loathing, odium
disgust
strong feelings of dislike
hate, hatred
the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
2
1n an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
condemnation, curse
anathema
a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
imprecation, malediction
the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
denouncement, denunciation
a public act of denouncing
2n the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
Hyper
object
the focus of cognitions or feelings
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