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malediction

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NOUN
  1. the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
    he suffered the imprecations of the mob

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  • The saint's reaction was instant and he heaped maledictions on the unfortunate salmon, forbidding it or any of its kind ever to enter the lake again.
  • And he does so on the sole basis of the appearance of these images and maledictions in the depictions of Simone's death elicited by torture from the accused.
  • If we had delayed, the Danish fleet would soon have been in the hands of the enemy; hence his maledictions against what he termed our "aggressions:" we had anticipated him, and he was mortified with the bitter disappointment he thereby sustained. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
  • While Mystic Secrets offers a lot of information about beneficial ceremonies, this article discusses rituals of cursing, called maledictions, and offers a few samples.
  • I promise you the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state; menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what. Act I. Scene II. King Lear
  • Sabastiano, le célibat d'été est une malédiction dans la mesure où, les beaux jours arrivant, les couples les couples bobo atteignent le summum de l'arrogance se baladent main dans la main avec un air encore plus serein et amoureux qu'en hiver, par exemple. 21:50 and peachy
  • Desponsatio tua, Dei Genitrix Virgo, gaudium annuntiavit universo mundo: ex te enim ortus est Sol iustitiæ, Christus Deus noster: qui solvens maledictionem, dedit benedictionem: et confundens mortem, donavit nobis vitam sempiternam. Well, it's been a quiet week here at The Inn. . . .
  • A thin, skeletal whisper, like a malediction from the underworld, filtered between the blood-soaked fingers of the eyeless man. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • You are mistaken, the Passions are not so minimally meritorious that you may maul them with your maledictions.
  • This terrible malediction no longer lets me be the tall dark handsome man I know I am,’ he continued mournfully.
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