malison
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There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett troupe had found.
From Time Magazine Archive
So at last he made up his mind to take the whole of it, even if he had to bear his mother's malison.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
I have no sorcerer's malison on me, No ghostly hauntings like his Highness.
From The Princess by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
She had risen to speak; the words were upon her lips: "Phrenzy to her heart was given, To speak the malison of Heaven," when she met the full and glaring force of Henry's flashing eyes.
From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton
Then she has lock'd her cellar door, For there were fifty steps and three; 35 "Lie there wi' my sad malison, For this bad news ye've tauld to me."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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