| Pronunciation: | | `impru'keyshun
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- [n] the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob"
- [n] a slanderous accusation
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| | Synonyms: | | malediction |
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| | See Also: | | accusal, accusation, condemnation, curse, execration |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im`pre*ca"tion\, n. [L. imprecatio: cf. F.
impr['e]cation.]
The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a
prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.
Men cowered like slaves before such horrid
imprecations. --Motley.
Syn: Malediction; curse; execration; anathema. See
{Malediction}.
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| | Related Terms: | | adjuration, anathema, appeal, application, ban, beseechment, bid, blasphemy, call, clamor, commination, cry, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, entreaty, evil eye, excommunication, execration, fulmination, hex, imploration, imploring, invocation, invocatory plea, malediction, malison, malocchio, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, plea, prayer, profanity, proscription, rogation, suit, supplication, swearing, thundering, whammy |
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