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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

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

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

They were of no more account than the rest of the excited populace that knew Davis but to execrate him.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

He knew that many would justly execrate his name until the end.

From Peccavi by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

That she had committed a technical offence is undeniable; but so did Andreas Hofer and other victims of Napoleonic tyranny whose doom patriotic Germans never cease to execrate.

From A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell by Ernest Protheroe

How one loves Canova the man, and how one execrates Canova the artist!

From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

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 execrates Racine, and treats him as a sorry sort of man.

From Balzac by Frederick Lawton

The Countess Theudelinde sheds tears like a river; she execrates us all, and declares we have killed her hero.

From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai

They cannot bestow their hostility on one who loathes and execrates them more than I do, or who will oppose their views with more zeal, when the opportunity offers.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet, the "mouse" managed to make himself an execrated writer in Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The outcome of Sickles' trial for the murder of Key was that the public applauded him for the shooting, then execrated him when he "forgave" his wife by living with her in the same house.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was remembered indeed, as he desired to be, but only to be execrated; while the seventh wonder of the world lay prostrate through his crime.

From Considerations on Religion and Public Education by Hannah More

And then talk went on, stiffly, each of its contribuents execrating its stiffness, but seeing no way to relaxation.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

His other patient was no doubt already execrating him for not coming to time, so he drove off briskly; at least, so his pony flattered himself.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

I paced from post to post, execrating the sluggish march of time.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

And in what glowing verse has Tasso described all the delicious pain of such a situation! now proud of his fetters, now execrating them in despair.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

They returned to their homes, execrating the war as waged in behalf of the arch-enemy of God and man, as the result of a pettifogging bit of trickery on the part of Napoleon.

From The Wars Between England and America by T. C. Smith