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 there would be one continual cheering all along as they passed, and all the women would cry, and the men would execrate Napoleon.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

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

All they can do, then, is to conceal these cruelties from the eyes of the people who already execrate him for his many roughnesses and the undoubted shadow under which he lives.

From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Green, Anna Katharine

"I would execrate it were it a Stradivarius," said he, his mouth full of sop.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John