MALEDICTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malediction mean? 

• MALEDICTION (noun)
  The noun MALEDICTION has 1 sense:

1. the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)

  Familiarity information: MALEDICTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALEDICTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

imprecation; malediction

Context example:

he suffered the imprecations of the mob

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)