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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

Besides these curses, all of which are uttered in anger, the mountaineers have a number of milder imprecatory expressions which they use merely to give additional force or emphasis to a statement.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

The style of the imprecatory sermon, however, was no more peculiar to him than to his period.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

The toe is stamped upon; the pain is just as keen as ever: I cry out, and perhaps utter imprecatory language.

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The imprecatory expressions which he made use of can never be copied by a feminine pen.

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace