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imprecation
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Definition:1. a curse2. the act of invoking a curse, as in to wish somebody evil
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Cuss rapped at the parlour door and entered. There was a fairly audible imprecation from within. "Pardon my intrusion," said Cuss, and then the door closed and cut Mrs. Hall off from the rest of the conversation.
H. G. Wells. The Invisible Man
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"What did I want with the little cuss, now," he said to himself, "that I should have got myself treed like a coon, as I am, this yer way?" and Haley relieved himself by repeating over a not very select litany of imprecations on himself, which, though there was the best possible reason to consider them as true, we shall, as a matter of taste, omit.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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One day when we were sitting on the sands, Saint-Loup and I, we heard issuing from a canvas tent against which we were leaning a torrent of imprecation against the swarm of Israelites that infested Balbec.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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Two or three more raced away on foot, clutching bags of Colum’s grain, pursued by furious MacKenzies shouting Gaelic imprecations.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Growling the foulest imprecations, he crawled along the sand till he got hold of the porch and could hoist himself again upon his crutch. Then he spat into the spring.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)
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