How To Use Malediction In A Sentence
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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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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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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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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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She would need at least one more before she was able to deal with my malediction.
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[(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
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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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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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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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This terrible malediction no longer lets me be the tall dark handsome man I know I am,’ he continued mournfully.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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By ‘curse’ he meant ‘a real malediction,’ a ‘calling down of evil on someone.’
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He called Brooklyn, parsed one reply, and concluded with a malediction.
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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
