imprecation

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There's as pretty a piece of Imprecation for you, when joined to the lines already sent, as you may wish to meet with in the course of your business.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

“One gentle Imprecation more and then, “He cries, Farewel the Laureat and his Pen: “Thy Country calls, if thou resign’st thy Sense, “Yet rouse to be a Man of Consequence.

From The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue by Anonymous

Imprecation is seldom absent from these incursions, being, in fact, urgently needed to do duty for closer argumentation.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

But there is still the problem of the Psalms of Imprecation.

From The Christian Use of the Psalter by Whitham, Arthur Richard

Strong was the Oath, the Imprecation dire; And for a Viand, lest their Guilt should tire, With promis’d Paradice they cheer their way; And bold’s the Souldier who has Heav’n his pay.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore