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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleading, especially with a deity; |
| Synonyms: | answer adoration, appeal, application, begging, benediction, beseeching, communion, devotion, entreaty, grace, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, litany, orison, petition, plea, pleading, request, request for help, rogation, service, suit, supplication, worship |
| Main Entry: | suit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal, request |
| Synonyms: | address, application, asking, attention, court, courtship, entreaty, imploration, imprecation, invocation, petition, plea, prayer, requesting, solicitation, soliciting, supplication, wooing |
| Antonyms: | demand, order |
| Main Entry: | swearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foul language |
| Synonyms: | bad language, blasphemy, cursing, cuss, cussing, dirty language, dirty name, dirty talk, dirty word, execration, expletives, four-letter word, imprecation, malediction, no-no, profanity, swearword |
| Main Entry: | commination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ban |
| Synonyms: | anathema, condemnation, curse, denunciation, diatribe, excommunication, execration, imprecation, malediction, obloquy, proscription, threat of punishment, threatening |
| Main Entry: | orison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prayer |
| Synonyms: | answer adoration, appeal, application, begging, benediction, beseeching, collect, communion, devotion, entreaty, grace, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, litany, petition, plea, pleading, request, request for help, rogation, service, suit, supplication, worship |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | petition |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Concept: | Malediction. |
| Category: | 2. Diffusive Sympathetic Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
malediction, malison, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation., abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing; profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility., threat; more bark than bite; invective (disapprobation).
-verbs
curse, accurse, imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction., execrate, beshrew, scold; anathematize (censure); bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten., curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn.
-adjectives
cursing, cursed
-phrases
delenda est Carthago.
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