EXECRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does execration mean? 

• EXECRATION (noun)
  The noun EXECRATION has 3 senses:

1. hate coupled with disgust

2. an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

3. the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated

  Familiarity information: EXECRATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXECRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hate coupled with disgust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

abhorrence; abomination; detestation; execration; loathing; odium

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

disgust (strong feelings of dislike)

hate; hatred (the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action)

Derivation:

execrate (find repugnant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

condemnation; curse; execration

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

denouncement; denunciation (a public act of denouncing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "execration"):

anathema (a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication)

imprecation; malediction (the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult))

Derivation:

execrate (curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

object (the focus of cognitions or feelings)

Derivation:

execrate (curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment)

execrate (find repugnant)

 Context examples 

"Shame! Shame!" "Give him a hearing!" "Put him out!" "Shove him off the platform!" "Fair play!" emerged from a general roar of amusement or execration.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose intentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, deserved better treatment than blows and execration.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A yell of execration and a scream of hideous laughter burst from the vast throng, as they saw the faces of the last survivors of their enemies peering down at them from the height of the keep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)