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MALEDICTION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)play

Example:

he suffered the imprecations of the mob

Synonyms:

imprecation; malediction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("malediction" is a kind of...):

condemnation; curse; execration (an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group)

Derivation:

maledict (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)

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