execration
pronunciation
How to pronounce execration in British English:
UK [ˌeksɪ'kreɪʃən]
How to pronounce execration in American English:
US [ˌɛksɪˈkreʃən]
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- Noun:
- hate coupled with disgust
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
Word Origin
- execration (n.)
- late 14c., "cursing, act of laying under a curse," from Latin execrationem (nominative execratio) "malediction, curse," noun of action from past participle stem of execrari "to hate, curse," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + sacrare "to devote to holiness or to destruction, consecrate," from sacer "sacred" (see sacred). From 1560s as "an uttered curse."
Example
- 1. You shall become an object of execration and horror , of cursing and ridicule .
- 2. And you shall leave your name for an execration to my elect : and the lord god shall slay thee , and call his servants by another name .
- 3. And you will become an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach , and you will see this place no more .
- 4. When any man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath of execration against himself , and when he comes for the oath before your altar in this temple .
- 5. There are times when I am intensely in sympathy with the feeling expressed in this earsplitting warning and execration , the startled solitary 's outburst of uncontrolled rage at the abhorred sight of a fellow-being in his woodland haunt .