Both Uses of
malediction
in
Middlemarch
- The first part of this speech comprised his whole store of maledictory expression, and was uttered with a slight snarl easy to imagine.†
Chpt 3 *
- But still the disappointed father held a strong lever; and Fred felt as if he were being banished with a malediction.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)