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noun
curse, execration
I taunted him, ridiculed him, and loaded him with maledictions—Sir Walter Scott
"与诅咒有关或包含诅咒的",1660年代,源自拉丁语 maledictus,,意为 maledicere "说坏话或诽谤"(源自 male "坏地"; 参见 mal- + dicere "说",源自 PIE 词根 *deik- "展示",也表示"庄重地发音")+ -ory。
Middle English malediccioun, from Late Latin malediction-, maledictio, from maledicere to curse, from Latin, to speak evil of, from male badly + dicere to speak, say — more at mal-, diction
The first known use of malediction was in the 14th century
maledictionnoun
a prayer for harm to come to someone : curse
1 the two old women began casting aspersions and heaping maledictions upon one another
2 What’s more, Presence imbues the song with a story centered around death, misfortune, and perhaps even malediction.
3 Despite this Sisyphean malediction, with each call for new proposals, the community still tries to push its boulder back to the mountaintop.
4 But perhaps the malediction presently heaped upon them will give them pause in the future.
5 Their language seemed perfectly suited for songs and maledictions.