Execration vs Malediction - What's the difference?
execration | malediction | Related terms |
An act or instance of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; an imprecation; an expression of utter detestation.
* 1835 : ,
* 1946 : , last sentence.
That which is execrated; a detested thing.
* 1611 :
Execration is a related term of malediction.
As nouns the difference between execration and malediction
is that execration is execration while malediction is spell, curse (supernatural detriment).execration
English
Noun
(en noun)"Sir James Mackintosh"
- When some of those brave and honest though misguided men who had sate in judgment on their King were dragged on hurdles to a death of prolonged torture, their last prayers were interrupted by the hisses and execrations of thousands.
- For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration .
- ... and ye shall be an execration , and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
