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 Countess Theudelinde sheds tears like a river; she execrates us all, and declares we have killed her hero.
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
She execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.
From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous
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
She execrates indeed The tyranny that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.
From The Task and Other Poems by William Cowper
Virginia, and execrates Maryland, which, by-the-by, I provok'd them to; for, though I admire both Virginia and Maryland, I laugh'd at the former and prais'd the latter; ridicul'd their manner of speaking.
From American Historical and Literary Antiquities, Part 12. Second Series by John Jay Smith
