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(verb) to invoke evil on; curse / (verb) to utter curses

Highlighted phrases

imprecations
imprecation
imprecate
imprecatory



imprecation; media brainwashing

—p.49 by Jean Baudrillard
notable
7 years ago


Nick began to mutter imprecation

by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
uncertain
7 years, 5 months ago


There were poems and prayers and imprecations.

—p.116 April: The Prodigal (107) by China Miéville
notable
7 years, 3 months ago


Driscoll’s imprecations were all that the worst could desire; and Leith already looked to a future in which he might forget them.

—p.32 by Shirley Hazzard
notable
1 year, 1 month ago


Somehow it always happened that Richard was out on the street when the German car ripped past—frozen with loathing, his imprecations tousled and tossed aside by the barreling backdraft.

—p.181 by Martin Amis
notable
11 months, 2 weeks ago


It is sometimes less an argument than an affirmation, an imprecation, a leap of feeling.

—p.162 Planting the Liberty Tree (102) by E.P. Thompson
notable
2 months, 1 week ago


It was clear from the tone that Jenny's accusation was an emotional, not a circumstantial, one, probably the crest of an imprecatory tidal wave

—p.58 Quarter to eight: the Costa Brava (27) by Martin Amis
confirm
1 year, 5 months ago


Otto came out upon the street muttering imprecations of a general, pointless nature

—p.351 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
notable
2 years, 1 month ago

Buried over there with a lot of dead Catholics, was Aunt May’s imprecation.

ahhh very confusing use of the word but it does make sense in context [refers to the woman that Aunt May hates]

—p.3 PART I (1) by William Gaddis
strange
2 years, 1 month ago