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

Let other states think what they will of it, there is one reason why every Pennsylvanian should execrate this imposition upon mankind.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Ford, Paul Leicester

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

But, stop, my dear sir, I would say to him; you ought not to execrate them all, because I had the misfortune of having fallen among a few american rogues.

From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Rocchietti, Joseph

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

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John