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Definition of malediction in English: maledictionnoun ˌmalɪˈdɪkʃ(ə)nˌmæləˈdɪkʃən A magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil; a curse. he muttered maledictions to himself as he trod the stone passages Example sentencesExamples - One interesting thing you'll notice is that the English-language maledictions used quite blithely in the French-language media are all obscenities, and the French words are all profanities.
- Actual curses rolled from their tongues, free and easy, but to Moscow they added the venom of a true malediction.
- A small group of rituals known as maledictions can visit misfortune and woe upon the target of one's ire.
- Those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.
- We got into yet another argument over something stupid that turned into exchanging insults and maledictions.
- As Milton argues in A Defence of the People of England, kingship originates from the Fall, and kings issue ‘not from blessings but from curses [and] maledictions cast upon fallen mankind’ .
- She would need at least one more before she was able to deal with my malediction.
- You are mistaken, the Passions are not so minimally meritorious that you may maul them with your maledictions.
- While Mystic Secrets offers a lot of information about beneficial ceremonies, this article discusses rituals of cursing, called maledictions, and offers a few samples.
- I know that my father was severely provoked many times, but even when angry, no malediction ever crossed his lips.
- Is this transformation meant to be valediction or a malediction?
- This terrible malediction no longer lets me be the tall dark handsome man I know I am,’ he continued mournfully.
- I screamed the malediction over and over again.
- By ‘curse’ he meant ‘a real malediction,’ a ‘calling down of evil on someone.’
- The saint's reaction was instant and he heaped maledictions on the unfortunate salmon, forbidding it or any of its kind ever to enter the lake again.
- Mr Godfrey took the hint and sunk back in his seat, muttering maledictions under his breath.
- And he does so on the sole basis of the appearance of these images and maledictions in the depictions of Simone's death elicited by torture from the accused.
- He muttered a quiet malediction, tugged off his gloves, and dug his dagger point into the soft lead that sealed the pane beside the latch in place.
- I'm not sure whose translation he used, but this one by Dudley Fitts captures the malediction Wright so relished.
- He called Brooklyn, parsed one reply, and concluded with a malediction.
Synonyms curse, oath, imprecation, execration anathema, voodoo, spell cursing, damning, damnation North American hex archaic malison
Derivatives adjective Typically, a hereditary or maledictive were-king cobra will simply flee at the sound of such music, returning at a later time when its prey is unaware. Example sentencesExamples - They all have some sort of maledictive parting shot.
- Although he is a maledictive lycanthrope, and his bite does not create progeny werebeasts, the weregorilla phenotype is included here.
- Complaint files from the lodged between 1995 and 1999 were analysed for the features common to anti-Semitic and heterosexist maledictive hate.
- Many years later I recounted this particular curse to Dr. Aman, an internationally known philologist and the world's foremost authority on maledictive speech.
adjective Crumlin, in particular, made the most maledictory speeches then. Example sentencesExamples - This is the maledictory circle within which Dick's beings move and from which they have to escape.
- By better understanding the linguistic conventions underlying all forms of maledictory hate, we are better able to address the false antimonies between different out-of-place positions.
- It would not ‘perpetuate the Hebrew anthropomorphic representations of God,’ and it would not be gloomy, ascetic, or maledictory.’
- The answer given to this is that Balaam's words objectively speaking, maledictory or otherwise, were of no effect.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin maledictio(n-), from maledicere 'speak evil of'. Rhymes addiction, affliction, benediction, constriction, conviction, crucifixion, depiction, dereliction, diction, eviction, fiction, friction, infliction, interdiction, jurisdiction, restriction, transfixion, valediction Definition of malediction in US English: maledictionnounˌmæləˈdɪkʃənˌmaləˈdikSHən A magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil or destruction; a curse. he muttered maledictions to himself as he trod the stone passages Example sentencesExamples - As Milton argues in A Defence of the People of England, kingship originates from the Fall, and kings issue ‘not from blessings but from curses [and] maledictions cast upon fallen mankind’ .
- Those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.
- The saint's reaction was instant and he heaped maledictions on the unfortunate salmon, forbidding it or any of its kind ever to enter the lake again.
- One interesting thing you'll notice is that the English-language maledictions used quite blithely in the French-language media are all obscenities, and the French words are all profanities.
- She would need at least one more before she was able to deal with my malediction.
- He called Brooklyn, parsed one reply, and concluded with a malediction.
- I know that my father was severely provoked many times, but even when angry, no malediction ever crossed his lips.
- I'm not sure whose translation he used, but this one by Dudley Fitts captures the malediction Wright so relished.
- Is this transformation meant to be valediction or a malediction?
- He muttered a quiet malediction, tugged off his gloves, and dug his dagger point into the soft lead that sealed the pane beside the latch in place.
- A small group of rituals known as maledictions can visit misfortune and woe upon the target of one's ire.
- We got into yet another argument over something stupid that turned into exchanging insults and maledictions.
- While Mystic Secrets offers a lot of information about beneficial ceremonies, this article discusses rituals of cursing, called maledictions, and offers a few samples.
- I screamed the malediction over and over again.
- This terrible malediction no longer lets me be the tall dark handsome man I know I am,’ he continued mournfully.
- You are mistaken, the Passions are not so minimally meritorious that you may maul them with your maledictions.
- By ‘curse’ he meant ‘a real malediction,’ a ‘calling down of evil on someone.’
- Mr Godfrey took the hint and sunk back in his seat, muttering maledictions under his breath.
- Actual curses rolled from their tongues, free and easy, but to Moscow they added the venom of a true malediction.
- And he does so on the sole basis of the appearance of these images and maledictions in the depictions of Simone's death elicited by torture from the accused.
Synonyms curse, oath, imprecation, execration
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin maledictio(n-), from maledicere ‘speak evil of’. |