Definitions for malediction

malediction mal·e·dic·tion

Spelling: [mal-i-dik-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌmæl ɪˈdɪk ʃən/

Malediction is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1355 anagrams from letters in malediction (acdeiilmnot).

Definitions for malediction

noun

  1. a curse; imprecation.
  2. the utterance of a curse.
  3. slander.

Origin of malediction

1400-50; late Middle English malediccion Latin maledictiōn- (stem of maledictiō) slander (Late Latin: curse). See male-, diction

Examples for malediction

But his love for her had fallen upon her tender spirit like a malediction.

The weaker man capitulated, with a malediction, to the stronger.

The "evil" which they utter is not calumny, but malediction.

Reproof and punishment greatly differ from cursing and malediction.

The Juez is there, and I call the malediction of the priests on my head if you, too, are not doomed.

If only my malediction is needed for that, I bestow it upon him!

Horror, shame, misery, and malediction; I have betrayed you.

It is the malediction of mortals to want what they lack until they get it, when they want it no more.

Jeff thought of Yuba Bill's malediction, and understood it as he gazed.

Human words were, for him, always a raillery or a malediction.

Word Value for malediction
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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