execrate
verb (used with object)
to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
execrates
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present tense formof execrate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The gentix ber contradicts, jeers at, and execrates his sovereign and his fellows with the utmost freedom.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
Everybody goes home in a sentimental glow and the native born working-man reads his Sydney Bulletin over a long-sleever and execrates the name of the country which bore his father and mother.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray
His very style foams, rages, prays, entreats, adjures, weeps, screams, warns, and execrates.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various
He welcomes any opportunity for war, but execrates militarism.
From The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly
He execrates, detests, despises himself; and admires her more than ever.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson
