[H]is friend, with great ebullience of paſſion, many praiſes of his own good play, and many maledictions on the power of chance, took up the cards, and threw them into the fire.
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Malediction
//ˌmæl.əˈdɪk.ʃən//
Synonyms for "malediction" (26 found)
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10 translations across 6 languages.
French
1 entries- malédiction noun (evil speech)
Hebrew
1 entries- לשון הרע noun (evil speech)
Latin
1 entries- maledictiō noun (evil speech)
Russian
4 entries- злосло́вие noun (evil speech)
- поноше́ние noun (evil speech)
- ру́гань noun (evil speech)
- скверносло́вие noun (evil speech)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- prokletstvo noun (evil speech)
- проклетство noun (evil speech)
Spanish
1 entries- maldición noun (evil speech)
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In view of all that we have said in the foregoing sections, the many obstacles we appear to have surmounted, what casts the pall over our victory celebration? It is the curse of dimensionality, a malediction that has plagued the scientist from earliest days.
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