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

He knew that many would justly execrate his name until the end.

From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Why do we execrate in one set of men, what we laud so highly in another?

From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

And just as I reverence this, do I execrate, with all my heart's indignation, a corrupt judicature.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James

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

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John