execrate

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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

Then come their dreary consolations, and present themselves before me; and I cast them out, and execrate them.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

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

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

I am fully informed, my precious sister, of your terrible situation; I will not stop now to execrate your infernal pursuer, though he will not lose my execrations by the delay!

From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

The human masses execrate the scourge, but accept it passively.

From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain