execrate

Etymology

From Latin exsecrārī, execrārī, from ex (“out”) + sacrāre (“to consecrate, declare accursed”).

verb

  1. (transitive) to feel loathing for; to abhor
    And were I not a thing for you and me To execrate in angish, you would be As indigent a stranger to surprise, I fear, as I was once, and as unwise. 1932, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Prodigal Son”, in Nicodemus
  2. (transitive) to declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce
  3. (intransitive, archaic) to invoke a curse; to curse or swear

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