How To Use Imprecation In A Sentence
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The excommunication was interpreted as an "imprecation" that cursed all Freemasons and doomed them to perdition.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Trunnion no sooner heard him mention the cause of her disorder, than his morosity recurring, he burst out into a violent fit of cursing, and forthwith betook himself again to his hammock, where he lay, uttering, in a low growling tone of voice, a repetition of oaths and imprecations, for the space of four-and-twenty hours, without ceasing.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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The figure of exclamation, I call him [_the outcrie_] because it vtters our minde by all such words as do shew any extreme passion, whether it be by way of exclamation or crying out, admiration or wondering, imprecation or cursing, obtestation or taking God and the world to witnes, or any such like as declare an impotent affection, as _Chaucer_ of the _Lady
The Arte of English Poesie
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Finally, his closing remarks were deadly: An overly flowery imprecation to courage that, ironically, made him sound utterly impotent:
Obama's Speech: Not The Turning Point He Had In Mind
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Or put case they escape, and rest unmasked to their lives 'end, yet after their death their memory stinks as a snuff of a candle put out, and those that durst not so much as mutter against them in their lives, will prosecute their name with satires, libels, and bitter imprecations, they shall male audire in all succeeding ages, and be odious to the world's end.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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he suffered the imprecations of the mob
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Never before had I left without him screaming imprecations or singing foul songs or asking for a final recitation of our mother's pain.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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And death (as yet) being deafe to all his earnest imprecations, delayed him on in lingering afflictions: and continuing still in such an extreame condition, he was advised by some of his best friends, utterly to abstaine from this fond pursuit, because his hopes were meerely in vaine, and Madam Catulla prized nothing more precious to her in the World, then unstayned loyaltie to her
The Decameron
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Croft galloped past the cart, the farmer's imprecations following him down the road.
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But supposing there were any credit to be had to this passage, were the sacred penmen any way concerned in these curses and imprecations?
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Sikes, invoking terrific imprecations upon Fagin's head for sending Oliver on such an errand, plied the crowbar vigorously, but with little noise.
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Then, as she jerked at it and muttered another imprecation, the skirt came free and quickly dropped to cover most of what had interested him.
Shameless
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To justify the imprecations of vengeance upon the sinner's posterity, the sin of his ancestors is here brought into the account (v. 14, 15), the iniquity of his fathers and the sin of his mother.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Then comes the narrative of James Caton of Bristol, who writes to complain that while transacting his business on the Bristol Exchange he is violently seized by a pressgang, with oaths and imprecations.
Castle Rackrent
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Screaming imprecations and struggling wildly, she had to be held down by several guards while I cut the splint off her arm.
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The prisoners shouted imprecations against the government, proclaimed their innocence, and in some cases waved crutches and prosthetic limbs to show that they were not the dangerous guerrilla fighters they are alleged to be.
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“If no other man has slept with you and if you have not gone astray in defilement while married to your husband, may you be safe from harm from this water of bitterness… But if you have gone astray… may the LORD make you a curse and an imprecation among your people, with the LORD causing your thigh to sag and your belly to be distended.”
In the Valley of the Shadow
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In the farcical comedies we have low vulgar swearing unworthy even the refuse of society; while in the _comedies larmoyantes_ (_weeping comedies_) and tragedies, we have eternal imprecations of the deity, indicative only of madness in literature.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
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By this time the Westphalian recovered the use of his tongue, and with many threats and imprecations, desired they would take notice how falsely he had been aspersed, and do him justice in espousing his claim to the damsel in question.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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Horrified, Patience muttered an imprecation, and rapidly did it up.
A RAKE'S VOW
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He is, at this moment, hunched over his unstolen cellphone in tears, begging, pleading, mumbling imprecations for me to call him and relieve his torment.
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Once, with a muttered imprecation, Kama leaped away, a stick of firewood in hand, and clubbed apart a tangle of fighting dogs.
Chapter IV
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Under Lian - imprecation - the woman can annul the marriage if the husband makes a charge of promiscuity and is unable to follow it up with evidence.
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But of course, "liberal" isn't imprecation enough for his outrage: the Democrats are "committed," rather, "to a secular-socialist ideology that is alien to America's history and traditions.
A Newt Gingrich Time Warp
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Three spring months, at Florence, had been spent in making a scientific collection of local imprecations -- abusive, vituperative or profane expletives; swear-words, in short -- enriched with elaborate commentary.
Alone
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Meer whispered at first, but slowly and steadily his voice grew louder, till it rumbled in bardic imprecation.
A TIME OF WAR
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Four times he raised his voice, four times a cry of indignation drowned his words, and at length, seeing that he could obtain no farther hearing, he resumed his seat with an expression fiendishly malignant, and a fierce imprecation on Rome, and all that it contained.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Meanwhile "inebriation in all its most brutal and disgraceful shapes" takes its moral toll upon the masses in the form of vile oaths, imprecations, naughty songs, and pervasive "ribaldry"; thus procedures that are intended to facilitate public participation actually create an "earthly hell" on the deck of the outlaw vessel (405).
Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott
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Howell was muttering threats and imprecations.
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Instead of the dulcet sounds of ‘Silent Night’, there are imprecations emanating from the kitchen.
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Instead of the dulcet sounds of ‘Silent Night’, there are imprecations emanating from the kitchen as the cook discovers a tub of cream in the fridge dripping all over the chipolatas.
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The Poems of the mourner himself have now passed through innumerable editions, and are universally known, but if, when Collins died, the same kind of imprecation had been pronounced by a surviving admirer, small is the number whom it would not have comprehended.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
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Apparently if a curse was spoken audibly (compare Lev 5: 1, “audible curse”; NRSV, “public adjuration”), it constituted a conditional rather than an absolute imprecation: it allowed the guilty party to come forth and make restitution (in the case of theft).
Mother of Micah: Bible.
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The major part of the clubs were filled with men, who formerly composed the revolutionary tribunals and societies; and their imprecations against kings, and their liberticide motions, made the Emperor fear, that he had revived the spirit of anarchy.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I
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I can imagine the flood of phone calls to the local association and hear the muttered curses and imprecations of massed wheelers and dealers.
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We find imprecations against people who break laws, defile a sanctuary, commit perjury, or pollute a grave, amongst other things.
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_Petrarche_ in a sonet which Sir _Thomas Wiat_ Englished excellently well, said in this figure by way of imprecation and obtestation: thus,
The Arte of English Poesie