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The lament also contains an imprecatory prayer asking God to bring judgment on David’s oppressors.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2024

"Don't you?" said she, coming a step closer, and changing her imprecatory cry for a whisper which made the gamekeeper's lad, following Mr. Gisborne, creep all over.

From The Poor Clare by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Caleb read on; he was reading now one of the imprecatory psalms.

From Pembroke A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

M. S. Guyard discovered at that time that the concluding phrase of many Vannic texts represented an imprecatory formula found in exactly the same place in Assyrian counterparts.

From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Boettiger, Louis A.

The imprecatory Epitaph referred to has already appeared in our columns.

From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George