execrate
verb
- to detest utterly
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/ / /ˈɛksɪkɹeɪt/
verb
Etymology: From Latin exsecrārī, execrārī, from ex (“out”) + sacrāre (“to consecrate, declare accursed”).
- To feel loathing for; to abhor.
“Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ; […]”
“And were I not a thing for you and me To execrate in anguish, you would be As indigent a stranger to surprise, I fear, as I was once, and as unwise.”
- To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.
- To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.
“He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.”