execration

== English == === Etymology === From Latin execrātiō. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɛksɪˈkɹeɪʃən/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɛksəˈkɹeɪʃən/ Rhymes: -eɪʃən Hyphenation: ex‧e‧cra‧tion === Noun === execration (countable and uncountable, plural execrations) 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. That which is execrated; a detested thing. ==== Related terms ==== execrate execrative execrator execratory ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === excreation