execrative

English

Etymology

execrate +‎ -ive

Noun

execrative (plural execratives)

  1. A word used for cursing; an oath.
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Adjective

execrative (comparative more execrative, superlative most execrative)

  1. Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
    • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
      But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other horrid sons of Nature, came in, 'swallowing formulas' as the French now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest[.]

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for execrative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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