execrate
verb (used with object)
to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
had execrated
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past perfectof execrate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Lord North, dressed in blue and buff,—his new livery,—strutted about amid those who only fifteen months before had execrated and denounced him, until, by the coalition with Fox, he had made himself their idol.
From Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire by Mary Robinson
She had execrated Timokles at times when she had spoken of him before Heraklas, and he had thought that the execration came from her heart.
From Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East by Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford
She no longer remembered how, within the hour, she had execrated this man who now stood before her.
From The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service by Marvin Hill Dana
They had execrated and persecuted him; and his only response was setting his teeth more firmly and turning the screw a little tighter when he had the chance.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
She had execrated and despised Cassius, and now she hated, no less, the man who had wrongfully accused her.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Elbert Hubbard
