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The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary
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execrate
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synonyms: objurgate, reprove ???
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Definition:1. (transitive) To feel loathing for; abhor.2. (transitive) To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; denounce.3. (intransitive, archaic) To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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She had seen duchesses at Vaubyessard with clumsier waists and commoner ways, and she execrated the injustice of God.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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So soon as he recovered himself, the poor little negro was assailed by yells and execrations from the crew.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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my convict and the other one. Both were bleeding and panting and execrating and struggling; but of course I knew them both directly.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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He carried her in; I followed, grumbling execrations and vengeance.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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