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1
a prayer that harm will come to someone
- upon discovering that someone had stolen his golf bag, he let loose a volley of execrations
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- anathema,
- ban,
- curse,
- imprecation,
- malediction,
- malison,
- winze
- [Scottish]
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- citation,
- commendation,
- endorsement
- (also indorsement)
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2
a very strong dislike
- a cowardly betrayal that earned him the execration of all who had remained loyal to the cause
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3
something or someone that is hated
- denounced as an abomination before God and man, the heretic would forever be an execration even amongst his own people
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The first known use of execration was in the 14th century
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