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execration

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: execration

1
 n
hate coupled with disgust
2
 n
an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: execration
1

n hate coupled with disgust

Synonyms:
abhorrence, abomination, detestation, loathing, odium
Type of:
disgust
strong feelings of dislike
hate, hatred
the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
2

n an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

Synonyms:
condemnation, curse
Types:
anathema
a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
imprecation, malediction
the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
Type of:
denouncement, denunciation
a public act of denouncing

n the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated

Type of:
object
the focus of cognitions or feelings
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