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

If in the duel, she was to prove victorious, with a bitterness as of gall would he execrate this woman!

From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

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

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

"I say again: "'Mon ami, do not execrate your own image.'

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie