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English
Etymology
From Latin exsecrārī, execrārī, from ex (“out”) + sacrāre (“to consecrate, declare accursed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/, /ˈɛksɪkɹeɪt/
Verb
execrate (third-person singular simple present execrates, present participle execrating, simple past and past participle execrated)
- (transitive) To feel loathing for; to abhor.
1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), , chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. , volume I, London: ">…] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 161:Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ;
1932, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Prodigal Son”, in Nicodemus, page 66:And were I not a thing for you and me
To execrate in anguish, you would be
As indigent a stranger to surprise,
I fear, as I was once, and as unwise.
- (transitive) To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.
- Synonyms: anathematize, comminate, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict, obdurate
- (intransitive, archaic) To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.
Derived terms
Translations
to declare to be hateful or abhorrent; denounce
(archaic) to invoke a curse
Further reading
- “execrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “execrate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “execrate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “execrate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
execrāte
- vocative masculine singular of execrātus
Spanish
Verb
execrate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of execrar combined with te