All 3 Uses
execrate
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
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- Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.†
p. 83.8 *execrated = expressed strong hatred or loathing for
- It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose intentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, deserved better treatment than blows and execration.†
p. 118.5
- Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child?†
p. 224.2execrate = to express strong hatred or loathing for
Definitions:
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(1)
(execrate) to express intense hatred or loathing for
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)