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malediction
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Definition:A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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These works filled with abominable imaginings, offensive with their odours of burning, oozing with blood and clamorous with cries of horror and maledictions, gave Des Esseintes, who was held fascinated in this red room, the creeping sensations of goose-flesh.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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He was walking with great strides along by the wall, near the espalier, and he ground his teeth; he raised to heaven looks of malediction, but not so much as a leaf stirred.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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