different between execrated vs execration

English

Verb

execrated

1. simple past tense and past participle of execrate

Anagrams

• excreated

English

Etymology

From Latin execr?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ks??k?e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ks??k?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: ex?e?cra?tion

Noun

execration (countable and uncountable, plural execrations)

1. An act or instance of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; an imprecation; an expression of utter detestation.
   • 1946 April 11, Albert Camus; Stuart Gilbert, transl., part 2, chapter V, in The Stranger, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, OCLC 343192; reprinted New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, June 1967 (12th printing), OCLC 1990040, page 154:

     For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

2. That which is execrated; a detested thing.

Related terms

• execrate
• execrative
• execrator
• execratory

Translations

Anagrams

• excreation