malison

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The senses feel life's snow, But not less hot the tides of passion flow: Such is our earthly nature's malison!

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Or else they may dread the malison that all men have who will not do them, when they had goods to do them with.

From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Hodgson, Geraldine Emma

Many of these are dying words like bide, dight, blithe, malison, vengeance, and since these are still spoken in other classes, it might be less difficult to restore them to educated speech.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions by Society for Pure English

So at last he made up his mind to take the whole of it, even if he had to bear his mother's malison.

From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson