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execrate

[ek-si-kreyt] / ˈɛk sɪˌkreɪt /


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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 come their dreary consolations, and present themselves before me; and I cast them out, and execrate them.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Dannecker, like every patronized artist I ever met with, would execrate patronage if he dared.

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

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

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah




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