Imprecate vs Execrate - What's the difference?
imprecate | execrate |
To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.
* 1851 ,
To feel loathing for; abhor.
To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; denounce.
(archaic) To invoke a curse.
As verbs the difference between imprecate and execrate
is that imprecate is to call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous while execrate is to feel loathing for; abhor.imprecate
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(imprecat)- To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; [...]