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
They were of no more account than the rest of the excited populace that knew Davis but to execrate him.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton
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
Two human beings who execrate me are now praying for you.
From A Christian But a Roman by Jókai, Mór
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
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