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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

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

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

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

Will they not execrate the memory of those ancestors, who, having it in their power to avert evil, have, like their first parents, entailed a curse upon all future generations?

From Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia by St. George Tucker

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

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

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

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

Everybody goes home in a sentimental glow and the native born working-man reads his Sydney Bulletin over a long-sleever and execrates the name of the country which bore his father and mother.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray

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

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

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

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

He dressed for dinner, execrated split infinitives and democracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

"From his childhood," says his biographer, "he kept the canons, and execrated the teachings of heretics;" and he tells us that this last phrase is Origen's own.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

It was terrible to see how like this young lad grew to the man he was execrating.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn

"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

All concurred in execrating the author or authors of this horrid deed.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

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 The Two Great Retreats of History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

Instead of angrily reviling and execrating while, suspended from the cross, he endured the most shameful calumnies, he, with strong cries and with tears, prayed, "Father, forgive them."

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker