execrate

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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

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 Coffin, Charles Carleton

Bitterly did she execrate him, but it availed nothing.

From The Home Mission by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Then there would be one continual cheering all along as they passed, and all the women would cry, and the men would execrate Napoleon.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

But, stop, my dear sir, I would say to him; you ought not to execrate them all, because I had the misfortune of having fallen among a few american rogues.

From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Rocchietti, Joseph