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

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)

Ireland had reason to bless the movement towards liberty which came from France, and not less to execrate the excesses which strengthened the hands of liberty's opponents.

From Thomas Moore by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

Will they not execrate the memory of those ancestors, who, having it in their power to avert evil, have, like their first parents, entailed a curse upon all future generations?

From Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia by Tucker, St. George