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UKImprecation
/ɪmpɹɪkˈeɪʃən/
/ɪmpɹɪkˈeɪʃən/Imprecation
[NOUN]1
the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
synonyms : malediction
Examples
1. All of the classic poetic devices, metaphor, imagery, connotation, alliteration, meter, rhyme, all of them are put to use in obscene imprecations.
2. And then there was also a contribution in the section about the idea of mutual imprecation, or Li'an, or mutual cursing.
3. And scholars who have studied Maladicta, swearing curses, imprecations have often commented on how a shear linguistic ingenuity that goes into them.
4. You can accuse them of having engaged in undignified sexual activities, and every undignified sexual activity has an obscene imprecation.
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