Both Uses of
malediction
in
Moby Dick
- The long, barbed steel goblets were lifted; and to cries and maledictions against the white whale, the spirits were simultaneously quaffed down with a hiss.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(malediction) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)