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Execration

The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.

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Anathema 76% connected

A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything a…

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Imprecation 76% connected

The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.

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Malediction 76% connected

A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.

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Denouncement 76% connected

Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation.

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Denunciation 76% connected

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.

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Disgust 76% connected

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…

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Hate 76% connected

To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to de…

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Hatred 76% connected

Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

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Object 76% connected

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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Abominate 74% connected

To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

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Abominate 74% connected

To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

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Abhorrence 92% connected

Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

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Abomination 92% connected

The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Condemnation 92% connected

The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Curse 92% connected

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Detestation 92% connected

The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Loathing 92% connected

of Loathe

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Odium 92% connected

Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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