malediction in English

noun
1
a magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil or destruction; a curse.
As Milton argues in A Defence of the People of England, kingship originates from the Fall, and kings issue ‘not from blessings but from curses [and] maledictions cast upon fallen mankind’ .

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1. It is a kind of malediction.

2. What is the meaning of the word “malediction”?

3. Shakespeare's remains were guarded by a malediction.

4. Would you turn their distress into a malediction?

5. He was answered with a torrent of malediction.

6. of those in front of Ebal emphasizes each malediction.

7. Now the spell he had nurtured would become an old man's malediction.

8. And they will become a curse, an object of horror, a malediction, and a reproach.

9. Earlier, when the nations wished to cite an example of malediction, they could point to Israel.

10. Antonyms for Benison include anathema, curse, execration, imprecation, malediction, malison, damning, damnation, denunciation and cursing

11. There Joshua “read aloud all the words of the law, the blessing and the malediction.”

12. As if that quest were not macabre enough in itself, I went as if under some sort of malediction.

13. All those benedictions will fall back before they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God.

14. 20 It is often claimed that there is the malediction prohibition in Daoism, and Buddhist monks simply reject such business.

15. But like the movie mummies who invoke the malediction, the legend of the mummy's curse seems destined never to die.

16. It is often claimed that there is the malediction prohibition in Daoism, and Buddhist monks simply reject such business.

17. The imperial malediction on factions has a more than curious parallel, as we shall see, in Chang's own philosophy of history and learning.

18. There isn't any malediction, denouncement and slander towards LuoJing was heard or read by the world in any time so far.

19. Its malediction has been unchanged in ethics and philosophy, and today it is maintained in psychoanalysis and the 'liberation of desire.

20. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of Saint-Merry.

21. There are many synonyms of Commination which include Anathema, Condemnation, Curse, Denunciation, Diatribe, Excommunication, Execration, Imprecation, Malediction, Obloquy, Threatening, Proscription, Threat Of Punishment, etc.

22. I remember, May 19I was 15-and-a-half, and Iwas thrown into a haunted universe wherethestory ofthehumanadventureseemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

23. Then, the account tells us: “He read aloud all the words of the law, the blessing and the malediction, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

24. From his very first steps among men, he had felt himself, later on he had seen himself, spewed out, blasted, rejected. Human words were, for him, always a raillery or a malediction.

25. Malediction: No longer increases the effect of Curse of the Elements, but now also increases the periodic critical strike chance of your Corruption and Unstable Affliction spells by 3/6/9%.

26. … the new television season—the event called more bluntly “the half-billion-dollar Crapshoot” by those who have made it and who now await blessing or malediction … 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition), page 163: What a Crapshoot, fatherhood