'Execration' definitions:
Definition of 'execration'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group [syn: execration, condemnation, curse]
noun
The object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
Definition of 'Execration'
From: GCIDE
- Execration \Ex`e*cra"tion\, n. [L. execratio, exsecratio: cf. F. ex['e]cration.]
- 1. The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed. [1913 Webster]
- Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is execrated; a detested thing. [1913 Webster]
- Ye shall be an execration and . . . a curse. --Jer. xlii. 18.
- Syn: See Malediction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'execration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abhorrence,
- abomination,
- abuse,
- anathema,
- Anglophobia,
- anti-Semitism,
- antipathy,
- assailing,
- assault,
- attack,
- aversion,
- ban,
- berating,
- bigotry,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- blasphemy,
- commination,
- contumely,
- curse,
- cursing,
- cussing,
- damnation,
- denunciation,
- despitefulness,
- detestation,
- diatribe,
- dislike,
- evil eye,
- excommunication,
- fulmination,
- hard words,
- hate,
- hatred,
- hex,
- imprecation,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- loathing,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- malignity,
- malison,
- malocchio,
- misandry,
- misanthropy,
- misogyny,
- odium,
- onslaught,
- peeve,
- pet peeve,
- philippic,
- phobia,
- profanity,
- proscription,
- race hatred,
- racism,
- rating,
- repugnance,
- revilement,
- Russophobia,
- screed,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- swearing,
- thundering,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- vials of hate,
- vials of wrath,
- vilification,
- vituperation,
- whammy,
- xenophobia