imprecation

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin imprecātiō (“calling down of curses”), from imprecor (“call down, invoke”).

noun

  1. The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone; a prayer that a curse or calamity may befall someone.
    Her son turned to look at her as she reeled and swayed in the middle of the room, her fierce face convulsed with passion, her blotched arms raised high in imprecation. "May Gawd curse her forever," she shrieked. 1893, Stephen Crane, chapter 10, in Maggie, Girl of the Streets
  2. A curse.

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