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Word Meanings - IMPRECATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of imprecating, or unvoking evil upon any one; a player that a curse or calamnity may fall on any one; a curse. Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations. Motley. Syn. -- Malediction; curse; execration; anathema.

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The act of imprecating, or unvoking evil upon any one; a player that a curse or calamnity may fall on any one; a curse. Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations. Motley. Syn. -- Malediction; curse; execration; anathema. See Malediction.

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  • ANATHEMATISM
    Anathematization. We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.
  • BLESSING
    A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
  • CURSE
    1. An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction. Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. Shak. 2. Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or
  • ANATHEMATIZE
    To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.
  • CURSEDLY
    In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
  • IMPRECATION
    The act of imprecating, or unvoking evil upon any one; a player that a curse or calamnity may fall on any one; a curse. Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations. Motley. Syn. -- Malediction; curse; execration; anathema.
  • CURSED
    Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
  • MALEDICTION
    A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction. No malediction falls from his tongue. Longfellow. Syn. -- Cursing; curse; execration; imprecation; denunciation; anathema.
  • BLESSEDLY
    Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.
  • ANATHEMATIZER
    One who pronounces an anathema. Hammond.
  • ANATHEMATIC; ANATHEMATICAL
    Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema. -- A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • CURSER
    One who curses.
  • EXECRATION
    1. The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed. Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations. Shak. 2. That which is execrated; a detested thing. Ye shall be an execration and . . . a
  • BLESSED
    Beatified. 6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. Not a blessed man came to set her free. R. D. Blackmore. (more info) 1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble
  • ANATHEMA
    1. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. denounce anathemas against unbelievers. Priestley. 2. An imprecation; a curse; a
  • DENUNCIATION
    1. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
  • BLIGHT
    A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects. 5. pl. (more info) 1. Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a
  • BLESSER
    One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.
  • ANATHEMATIZATION
    The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation. Barrow.
  • BLESSED THISTLE
    See THISTLE
  • CURBLESS
    Having no curb or restraint.
  • CONSTABLESS
    The wife of a constable.
  • RIBLESS
    Having no ribs.
  • LIMBLESS
    Destitute of limbs.
  • THUMBLESS
    Without a thumb. Darwin.
  • PRECURSE
    A forerunning. Shak.
  • CUBLESS
    Having no cubs. Byron.
  • SHRUBLESS
    having no shrubs. Byron.
  • HERBLESS
    Destitute of herbs or of vegetation. J. Warton.
  • UNBLESS
    To deprive of blessings; to make wretched. Shak.

 

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