Imprecation

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  • noun. The act of imprecating.
  • noun. A curse.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of imprecating or invoking evil; a malediction; a prayer or expressed wish that a curse or calamity may befall some one.
  • noun. Synonyms Curse, Execration, etc. See malediction.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone; a prayer that a curse or calamity may befall someone.
  • noun. A curse.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a slanderous accusation
  • noun. the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
    • Word Usage
    "The excommunication was interpreted as an "imprecation" that cursed all Freemasons and doomed them to perdition."
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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    accusal  accusation  condemnation  curse  execration  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blasphemy  clamor  curse  denunciation  entreaty  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adjuration  anathema  anathema  appeal  application  
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