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The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.

From "1984" by George Orwell

All they can do, then, is to conceal these cruelties from the eyes of the people who already execrate him for his many roughnesses and the undoubted shadow under which he lives.

From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Anna Katharine Green

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

Will they not execrate the memory of those ancestors, who, having it in their power to avert evil, have, like their first parents, entailed a curse upon all future generations?

From Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia by St. George Tucker

The human masses execrate the scourge, but accept it passively.

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

"A rather interesting feature about dad," whispered Margaret with mischief in her eyes, "is that when he's angry he curses in French, and when he's mad he execrates in German."

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

Everybody goes home in a sentimental glow and the native born working-man reads his Sydney Bulletin over a long-sleever and execrates the name of the country which bore his father and mother.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray

Beatrice Patrick Campbell is especially an artist, and her talent is that of charm and thought: she execrates beaten paths; she wants to create, and she creates.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

The gentix ber contradicts, jeers at, and execrates his sovereign and his fellows with the utmost freedom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

He begins to fear he shall lose his gold, and execrates his folly for incurring such heedless risk.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

This man they’d execrated and denounced had shocked the world—not just by being his shocking self but by winning; nobody expected him to win!—and yet from them this evoked no reaction.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2016

Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated!"

From Time Magazine Archive

He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her.

From Time Magazine Archive

Throughout our whole land it is universally despised and execrated; and if popular odium could extinguish it, it would speedily be sunk in the slimy depths of the Great Salt Lake.

From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by R. W. Beers

"You know not the horror with which they inspire me, any more than you can guess the personal reasons I have for avoiding and execrating them, and all who resemble them."

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Instead of execrating Mr. Holt, I admire him most profoundly.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green

Chauvenet and Durand, as they marched ahead of their captors, divided the time between execrating each other and trying to make terms with Armitage.

From The Port of Missing Men by Meredith Nicholson

The Honveds began execrating the name of a colonel who had often come to our soirées.

From Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai

Nobody would think of execrating you about an affair three thousand years old.

From The Brass Bottle by F. Anstey