Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]
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Imprecation
//ˌɪm.pɹɪˈkeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "imprecation" (47 found)
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Related words (23)
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9 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 20 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- անեծք noun (a curse)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qarğış noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
Bulgarian
1 entries- прклятие noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
Czech
4 entries- klení noun (a curse)
- kletba noun (a curse)
- prokletí noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- prokletí noun (a curse)
Danish
1 entries- forbandelse noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
Dutch
1 entries- verwensing noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
Finnish
2 entries- kirous noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- kirous noun (a curse)
French
4 entries- exécration noun (a curse)
- exécrer noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- imprécation noun (a curse)
- lancer des imprécations contre noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
German
2 entries- Fluch noun (a curse)
- Verwünschung noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
Italian
2 entries- imprecazione noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- imprecazione noun (a curse)
Latin
3 entries- exsecrātiō noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- imprecātiō noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- imprecātiō noun (a curse)
Occitan
4 entries- escomenge noun (a curse)
- escomenja noun (a curse)
- imprecacion noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- imprecacion noun (a curse)
Polish
4 entries- klątwa noun (a curse)
- pomstowanie noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- przekleństwo noun (a curse)
- złorzeczenie noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
Romanian
2 entries- blestem noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- imprecație noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
Russian
2 entries- прокля́тие noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- прокля́тие noun (a curse)
Spanish
2 entries- imprecación noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- imprecación noun (a curse)
Swedish
2 entries- förbannelse noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- förbannelse noun (a curse)
Tocharian B
2 entries- śāp noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- śāp noun (a curse)
Turkish
4 entries- küfretme noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- küfür noun (a curse)
- küfür etme noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- sövgü noun (a curse)
Ukrainian
3 entries- прокльон noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
- прокляття noun (a curse)
- проклін noun (act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone)
Sample sentences
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Her son turned to look at her as she reeled and swayed in the middle of the room, her fierce face convulsed with passion, her blotched arms raised high in imprecation. "May Gawd curse her forever," she shrieked.
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Mr. Gamfield growled a fierce imprecation on the donkey generally, but more particularly on his eyes; and, running after him, bestowed a blow on his head.
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He drank the spirits and impatiently bade us go; terminating his command with a sequel of horrid imprecations too bad to repeat or remember.
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