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imprecation

noun as in blasphemy

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Without waiting to catch breath after his heroic skirmish, he began uttering, over these detested feathers, the most horrible imprecations imaginable.

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Her singing encompassed cathartic extremes: lullabies and imprecations, sighs and howls.

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She hurled raspy imprecations in “Hurt Yourself” and let her voice break with tearful desperation and then find its own resolve in the hymnlike “Sandcastles.”

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He then leads the Army in shouts of the imprecation, "Arise, oh God, and let your enemies be scattered!"

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In the history of American presidential debates, there never has been a spectacle of imprecations and interruptions like Tuesday night’s prize fight.

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