An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.
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1 Thyestes exalts over the fulfillment of another chapter in the inevitable curse .
2 They had got the Nibelungen hoard; and with it the Nibelungen curse .
3 The curse of militarism may make itself felt even in the school-room.
4 Maybe Drake is trying to direct the curse 's power towards the Warriors.
5 The fearful curse of the country, however, is the belief in witchcraft.
1 A muttered imprecation escaped the lips of the watcher on the Drive.
2 Hardly had the abbé gone than Jacques Ferrand uttered a terrible imprecation .
3 The imprecation fell but too surely upon the devoted house of Stuart.
4 He flung the word out angrily, giving it emphasis by an imprecation .
5 Grinaldi turned away, suppressing the bitter imprecation that rose to his lips.
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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