You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Noun : The execrations of the prophet terrified the sinful multitude. From Dictionary.com.
Cheerfulness is the mainspring of discipline, and the desire to reward merit while crime is held in execration, ought ever to be the delight of the officer. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
The dam is torn down with emphasis and execration. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
"Union," or of execration of the old slavery system. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
To the lasting execration of Octavius, he consented that. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Bench -- will always earn for him the execration of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Frenchmen in the colonies became objects of insult and execration. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Providence than as villains worthy only of abhorrence and execration. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
In short, he came amid general execration, and departed amid universal regret. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Germany! fated to execration by future generations for that she ahs crucified the. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
A thoroughly good Irish yell of execration acts differently on different persons. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Every one ran into the street, and shouts of execration were raised on all sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Insurrection in Paris] Reference
Edinburgh, pursued by voices of reproach and execration from the overhanging roofs. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
Rome make terms with an outlaw whom she had infallibly doomed to eternal execration!. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties] Reference
Every one spoke of the Revolution with execration, and of the Emperor with satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
Aristophanes the execration of every man who has the slightest pretensions to virtue or honesty. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
Made to-night good Derrydown speech punctuated by howls of execration from Irish brethren opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892] Reference
Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for beauty, execration of literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson] Reference
Whereas, “Draggle Tail Dreary Dun” has no such recommendation to rescue it from universal execration. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
The names of Jefferson Davis, Cobb, Toombs, and Floyd, are mentioned with execration by the very children. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
There is nothing, not even the shadow of a virtue, to rescue them from universal and everlasting execration. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom his name was on the lips of all, either in execration or in praise. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
Cabrera, who was ever afterwards regarded with contempt and execration by the Carlists, died in London on the 24th of May 1877. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
"No tears are shed for nations," cried Francis, whose sympathy for the Revolution was as passionate as Burke's execration of it. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Thus perished one whose iniquities have caused his name to be handed down to eternal execration in the pages of American history. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
If we fail in this great duty now, when we have the power, we shall deserve and receive the execration of history and of all future ages. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
At the sight of the Ober-Amtmann's agitation and apparent swoon, a howl of execration burst from the crowd below, mingled with the cries of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
Arithelli herself scarcely heard the sounds of execration, as she stood swaying with one hand over her eyes to shut out the horrible glare. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
And shall the men who know this, and yet continue to furnish it for all who can be induced to buy, escape the execration of being the destroyers of their race?. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Can you tell me how mean a man I should have been, and what execration I should have deserved, if the next time those neighbors came to my house I had kicked them out of it?. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
His opponents became aware of the matter, and in storms of virtuous passion held him up to execration as a corrupt politician who was using his position to make himself rich. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
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