An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.
1 The words were of his native language, but the malediction was universal.
2 Hear the malediction with which Elisha cursed the insolent and mirthful children.
3 The malediction of this twenty-five-year-old Colonel appeared rather more comic than terrible.
4 They looked like three malignant fates lifting up their hands in malediction .
5 But Ford's rejoinder was the bitter malediction of the defeated industry captain.
6 With an obscene malediction at the body, he sprang upon a horse.
7 Byng muttered a malediction under his breath and leaned towards her sympathetically.
8 They reigned over Nostromo's mind with the force of a potent malediction .
9 Where is that divine malediction which perpetuates the abandonment of these fields?
10 Dea's favours, her loyalty, were turning to bitter malediction for the recipients.
11 To give you my dying malediction - to curse you with my latest breath!
12 As he lies in a swoon the wood-wind in turns continue the malediction .
13 He drew down the malediction of Gunpati by violating the grave of Maroba.
14 A malediction upon them; they nearly had us over the cliff.
15 I bestowed a malediction upon it, and then proceeded to examine the country.
16 The malediction of knaves is the glory of an honest man.
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