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The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.

From "1984" by George Orwell

I despise it, and I execrate a tyrant wherever he may be, and in every country where the people are struggling for the right of self-government I sympathize with them in their struggle.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Then there would be one continual cheering all along as they passed, and all the women would cry, and the men would execrate Napoleon.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

Oh, well," I said, controlling myself, and realising that she had some excuse to execrate Donald's memory, "let's not discuss Don now.

From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

We but smile at the one, we would learn to execrate the other.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

She execrates indeed   The tyranny that doomed them to the fire,   But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.

From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William

He execrates, detests, despises himself; and admires her more than ever.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel

He execrates Racine, and treats him as a sorry sort of man.

From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick

The gentix ber contradicts, jeers at, and execrates his sovereign and his fellows with the utmost freedom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

He welcomes any opportunity for war, but execrates militarism.

From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David

This man they’d execrated and denounced had shocked the world—not just by being his shocking self but by winning; nobody expected him to win!—and yet from them this evoked no reaction.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2016

And yet, the "mouse" managed to make himself an execrated writer in Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Toleration Sir: I got as great a lift out of the oblique slap your writer gave Pegler, who is execrated by most fair and decent people for his character assassinations ...

From Time Magazine Archive

He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine.

From Time Magazine Archive

De Clavering, who observed them both, gave a humorous dissertation on the powers of sympathy, and execrated its effects.

From Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 by Bonhote, Elizabeth

The very men whose own brethren had perished in France were not hearty or unanimous in execrating the deed.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

Chauvenet and Durand, as they marched ahead of their captors, divided the time between execrating each other and trying to make terms with Armitage.

From The Port of Missing Men by Nicholson, Meredith

And then talk went on, stiffly, each of its contribuents execrating its stiffness, but seeing no way to relaxation.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

They returned to their homes, execrating the war as waged in behalf of the arch-enemy of God and man, as the result of a pettifogging bit of trickery on the part of Napoleon.

From The Wars Between England and America by Smith, T. C.

It was terrible to see how like this young lad grew to the man he was execrating.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James