execrate
verb (used with object)
to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
had been execrating
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past perfect progressiveof execrate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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"Like all Irish patriots," including Grattan, Wolfe Tone "would have accepted greedily any tolerable appointment from the Government which he had been execrating."
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
Strange, but I was not in the least angry with Corkran, whom I had been execrating.
From It Happened in Egypt by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
