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execrate

[ek-si-kreyt] / ˈɛk sɪˌkreɪt /


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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 Rolland, Romain

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

We but smile at the one, we would learn to execrate the other.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

Presently the fish, not being properly banked, would have broken the gut and torn themselves from the hook, leaving me in bewilderment and shame, to execrate my ain stupid indecision.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various




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