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the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
he suffered the imprecations of the mob
How To Use malediction In A Sentence
- 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
- We got into yet another argument over something stupid that turned into exchanging insults and maledictions.
- I'm not sure whose translation he used, but this one by Dudley Fitts captures the malediction Wright so relished.
- 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
- It is often claimed that there is the malediction prohibition in Daoism, and Buddhist monks simply reject such business.
- As if that quest were not macabre enough in itself, I went as if under some sort of malediction.
- Mr Godfrey took the hint and sunk back in his seat, muttering maledictions under his breath.
- She would need at least one more before she was able to deal with my malediction.
- [(Ag) 9.2 (nes, and the malediction denounced ag) 9.2 (ainst the children of the unrig) 9.2 (hteous\227join dear)] TJ Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
- 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’ .