How To Use Maledict In A Sentence
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She would need at least one more before she was able to deal with my malediction.
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He called Brooklyn, parsed one reply, and concluded with a malediction.
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The one, of extreme bitterness of words, especially if they be aculeate and proper; for cummunia maledicta are nothing so much; and again, that in anger a man reveal no secrets; for that, makes him not fit for society.
The Essays
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Desponsatio tua, Dei Genitrix Virgo, gaudium annuntiavit universo mundo: ex te enim ortus est Sol iustitiæ, Christus Deus noster: qui solvens maledictionem, dedit benedictionem: et confundens mortem, donavit nobis vitam sempiternam.
23 January -- Festa in Desponsatione Beatæ Mariæ Virginis
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As Milton argues in A Defence of the People of England, kingship originates from the Fall, and kings issue ‘not from blessings but from curses [and] maledictions cast upon fallen mankind’ .
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We got into yet another argument over something stupid that turned into exchanging insults and maledictions.
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I'm not sure whose translation he used, but this one by Dudley Fitts captures the malediction Wright so relished.
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And my father's maledict ---- But you will chide me for introducing that, now I am enumerating my comforts.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
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I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
King Lear
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-- but, in his worse, he maledicted everything, and was horribly afraid of hell.
Mary Marston
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It is often claimed that there is the malediction prohibition in Daoism, and Buddhist monks simply reject such business.
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As if that quest were not macabre enough in itself, I went as if under some sort of malediction.
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Mr Godfrey took the hint and sunk back in his seat, muttering maledictions under his breath.
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By ‘curse’ he meant ‘a real malediction,’ a ‘calling down of evil on someone.’
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Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
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It's all very well for you to maledict the curtain, Carl, but you must work up to it.
Revenge!
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Vehement for he gave dread of love, or for that he took away the sorrow perdurable, which is malediction; or for that that he bare the heart out of carnal love.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1
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One interesting thing you'll notice is that the English-language maledictions used quite blithely in the French-language media are all obscenities, and the French words are all profanities.
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From him he heard a voluble flow of words dealing with regrets, expressions of disgust, one lament after the other, a jeremiade on hard times, maledictions hurled at dilatory creditors, infinite consolation — and empty advice.
Gänsemännchen. English
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More than most linguistic modes, such as paronomasia and malapropism, quasi malediction has diametric force.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
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A small group of rituals known as maledictions can visit misfortune and woe upon the target of one's ire.
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These pantaloons were made of a goat's skin; the long white wool, inches in length, left on and hanging down below the knees of the man, gave him a Pan-like look, and with the word tombola, suggested the lines of that good old song -- save the maledictory part of it:
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy
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Ahenobarbus was pouring out upon their inefficiency a torrent of wrathful malediction, that promised employment for the "whipper" for some time to come.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
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The saint's reaction was instant and he heaped maledictions on the unfortunate salmon, forbidding it or any of its kind ever to enter the lake again.
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I screamed the malediction over and over again.
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Those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.
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Sabastiano, le célibat d'été est une malédiction dans la mesure où, les beaux jours arrivant, les couples les couples bobo atteignent le summum de l'arrogance se baladent main dans la main avec un air encore plus serein et amoureux qu'en hiver, par exemple.
21:50 and peachy
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And he does so on the sole basis of the appearance of these images and maledictions in the depictions of Simone's death elicited by torture from the accused.
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Earlier high scores in the final clash came from 'phenolic', 'zonular' and 'maledict'.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we had delayed, the Danish fleet would soon have been in the hands of the enemy; hence his maledictions against what he termed our "aggressions:" we had anticipated him, and he was mortified with the bitter disappointment he thereby sustained.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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a mother, and father, and wife, and orphan, have had reason to maledict the _bloody Battles of the Factions_.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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She was reproached and maledicted by her father, on her return, although he knew not where she had been.
Margaret
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While Mystic Secrets offers a lot of information about beneficial ceremonies, this article discusses rituals of cursing, called maledictions, and offers a few samples.
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It was in that desperate and curious limbo known as the "exit concourse," where baffled creatures wait to meet others arriving on trains and maledict the architect who so planned matters that the passengers arrive on two sides at once, so that one stands grievously in the middle slewing his eyes to one side and another in a kind of vertigo, attempting to con both exits.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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I promise you the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state; menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
Act I. Scene II. King Lear
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While many of the writers noted above are relatively new, a couple possibly even more fresher than I've enjoyed and who I look forward to reading more from are Dana Copthorn (The Steam Magnate) and for a bit more traditional (but not really) Lane Robins (Maledicte, and Kings and Assassin forthcoming) who I think went WAY under the radar last year.
MIND MELD: The Best Women Writers in SF/F
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And my father’s maledict — — But you will chide me for introducing that, now I am enumerating my comforts.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Unsympathetically it is the job of computer alarm clock to crystallized sinusoidally the feeble maledict grindelia halfway as the opsb and the generosity of new cetus in this lattice.
Rational Review
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Earlier high scores in the final clash came from 'phenolic', 'zonular' and 'maledict'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The saint's reaction was instant and he heaped maledictions on the unfortunate salmon, forbidding it or any of its kind ever to enter the lake again.
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Desponsatio tua, Dei Genitrix Virgo, gaudium annuntiavit universo mundo: ex te enim ortus est Sol iustitiæ, Christus Deus noster: qui solvens maledictionem, dedit benedictionem: et confundens mortem, donavit nobis vitam sempiternam.
Well, it's been a quiet week here at The Inn. . . .
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All the while the maledict banner of the Romanoffs writhes above them.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896
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Unsympathetically it is the job of computer alarm clock to crystallized sinusoidally the feeble maledict grindelia halfway as the opsb and the generosity of new cetus in this lattice.
Rational Review
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A thin, skeletal whisper, like a malediction from the underworld, filtered between the blood-soaked fingers of the eyeless man.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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You are mistaken, the Passions are not so minimally meritorious that you may maul them with your maledictions.
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This terrible malediction no longer lets me be the tall dark handsome man I know I am,’ he continued mournfully.
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Mrs. Makebelieve understood also that the big man's action was merely his energetic surrender, as of one who, instead of tendering his sword courteously to the victor, hurls it at him with a malediction; and that in assaulting their friend he was bidding them farewell as heartily and impressively as he was able.
Mary, Mary
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I know that my father was severely provoked many times, but even when angry, no malediction ever crossed his lips.
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Is this transformation meant to be valediction or a malediction?
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He muttered a quiet malediction, tugged off his gloves, and dug his dagger point into the soft lead that sealed the pane beside the latch in place.
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Actual curses rolled from their tongues, free and easy, but to Moscow they added the venom of a true malediction.
