Definitions for execration

execration ex·e·cra·tion

Spelling: [ek-si-krey-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌɛk sɪˈkreɪ ʃən/

Execration is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 687 anagrams from letters in execration (aceeinortx).

Definitions for execration

noun

  1. the act of execrating.
  2. a curse or imprecation:
  3. the object execrated; a thing held in abomination.

Origin of execration

1350-1400; Middle English execracioun Latin ex(s)ecrātiōn- (stem of ex(s)ecrātiō). See execrate, -ion

Examples for execration

It was a raucous howl of execration, a bellow of rage, inarticulate, deafening.

There were words of reproach, encouragement, unbelief, execration.

Whatever he had intended to say was drowned by another howl of execration.

In his own dominions the voice of execration has been raised against him.

His name is now rarely mentioned, except with contempt or execration.

Thy memory will be an execration to the third and fourth generation.

Everyone was curious to see them, and howls of execration greeted them as they passed.

Some hereditary instinct admitted that as a just excuse for execration.

A perfect yell of scorn and execration followed this announcement.

Tonet did not quaver at the stare of execration his brother gave him.

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