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Definition
the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
- The first part of this speech comprised his whole store of maledictory expression, and was uttered with a slight snarl easy to imagine.Book 3 — Waiting for Death (25% in)
- But still the disappointed father held a strong lever; and Fred felt as if he were being banished with a malediction.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (33% in)
There are no more uses of "malediction" in Middlemarch.
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