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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

Then come their dreary consolations, and present themselves before me; and I cast them out, and execrate them.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Two human beings who execrate me are now praying for you.

From A Christian But a Roman by Jókai, Mór

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

I am fully informed, my precious sister, of your terrible situation; I will not stop now to execrate your infernal pursuer, though he will not lose my execrations by the delay!

From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

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

His very style foams, rages, prays, entreats, adjures, weeps, screams, warns, and execrates.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various

He welcomes any opportunity for war, but execrates militarism.

From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David

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

From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William

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

From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór

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 dressed for dinner, execrated split infinitives and democracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Toleration Sir: I got as great a lift out of the oblique slap your writer gave Pegler, who is execrated by most fair and decent people for his character assassinations ...

From Time Magazine Archive

She no longer remembered how, within the hour, she had execrated this man who now stood before her.

From The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service by Dana, Marvin Hill

I laid the bundle of splints and rolls of linen down on the table with a professional air, while I was inwardly execrating my father's negligence.

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Stretton, Hesba

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

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

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 De Morgan, William Frend

This is so strictly true, that, when the moment for execution arrived, we heard the inhabitants who had fled to the churches, execrating this destruction.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

June 30th.—Once more all men are execrating Gen. Huger.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp