malison

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There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett troupe had found.

From Time Magazine Archive

Back he drave them, rank on rank,Routed, with psalm, and malison, and ban,As from a sling flung forth. 

From The Legends of Saint Patrick by De Vere, Aubrey

So he spake in malison, and darkness p. 124veiled her eyes, and there the sacred strength of the sun did waste her quite away. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

“On me, if I stay in Brattingsborg,    Be every malison; If I have no horse on which to ride    I have legs on which to run.”

From The Expedition to Birting's Land and other ballads by Borrow, George Henry

It is only our gentle minstrel of the meres who sits in the seat of the scornful—only the hermit of Rydal Mount who invokes the malison of Nature.

From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John