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Webster 1913 Edition
Execrative
Ex′e-cra-tive
,Adj.
Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
Carlyle.
– Ex′e-cra-tive-ly
, adv.
Ex′e-cra-tive
,Noun.
A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.
Earle.
Definition 2024
execrative
execrative
English
Noun
execrative (plural execratives)
Adjective
execrative (comparative more execrative, superlative most execrative)
- 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[.]
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History