maledictions 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’ .
synonyms:cursedamnationoathspellhexjinximprecationanathemaexecration
noun

Use "maledictions" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "maledictions" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "maledictions", or refer to the context using the word "maledictions" in the English Dictionary.

1. Blessings or Maledictions—There Is a Choice!

2. Lechery Maledictions and Grieving Adjures to the Concerns of Flesh by Inthyflesh, released 09 May 2020 1

3. Antonyms for Benisons include anathemas, curses, execration, imprecations, maledictions, malisons, damnings, damnation, denunciations and cursings

4. After each of the maledictions, the instruction was given: “And all the people must say, ‘Amen!’”

5. Often, the people of Israel reaped the blistering results of maledictions because they chose to engage in false worship.

6. 9 Before the basic tenets of that agreement were etched in stone by the ‘finger of God,’ though, divine maledictions became necessary.

7. Such maledictions also certified that there can be no trifling with God’s principles and purposes, nor can there be a despising of them.

8. But if they did not keep listening to him, maledictions would just as surely overtake them. —Deuteronomy 8:10-14; 26:18; 28:2, 15.