Maledictions

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of malediction form-of, plural

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"On this he burst forth into a tremendous passion, took leave of the mother with maledictions, and as he left the apartment, turned back to say to his weak, if not fickle, mistresss: “For you, madam, you will be a world's wonder”; a phrase by which some remarkable degree of calamity is usually implied."

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