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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

"I would execrate it were it a Stradivarius," said he, his mouth full of sop.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke

Why do we execrate in one set of men, what we laud so highly in another?

From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Francis Child

Then he began to execrate the authors of his misfortune.

From The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 by Henry S. Spalding

Let other states think what they will of it, there is one reason why every Pennsylvanian should execrate this imposition upon mankind.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Paul Leicester Ford

She execrates indeed     The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire,     But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.

From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous

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

Virginia, and execrates Maryland, which, by-the-by, I provok'd them to; for, though I admire both Virginia and Maryland, I laugh'd at the former and prais'd the latter; ridicul'd their manner of speaking.

From American Historical and Literary Antiquities, Part 12. Second Series by John Jay Smith

Well, you are, thank God, remote from this epoch and fond of things which it knows nothing about or execrates, and a work of that kind would take you still further away.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates.

From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

You either execrated them and were on the side of history, or enjoyed them and missed the bus.

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

I walked on, vowing that I would not turn toward home until my faculties were restored; and execrating my folly in permitting the enslavement!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

"Like all Irish patriots," including Grattan, Wolfe Tone "would have accepted greedily any tolerable appointment from the Government which he had been execrating."

From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul

"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

Furiously he dashed into the thick of the conflict, and Triboulet, paralyzed with fear and dropping his lance, was borne helplessly onward, execrating the nag and his capricious humor.

From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham

Little Caligaro was execrating last night's rain, which had made the ground heavy.

From The Child of Pleasure by Georgina Harding