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Execrative

Ex′e-cra-tive

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Adj.
Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
Carlyle.
Ex′e-cra-tive-ly
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adv.

Ex′e-cra-tive

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Noun.
A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.
Earle.

Definition 2024


execrative

execrative

English

Noun

execrative (plural execratives)

  1. A word used for cursing; an oath.
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Adjective

execrative (comparative more execrative, superlative most execrative)

  1. Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
    • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
      But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other horrid sons of Nature, came in, 'swallowing formulas' as the French now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest[.]

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