execrative

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Noun

execrative (plural execratives)

1. A word used for cursing; an oath.

Adjective

execrative

1. Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other horrid sons of Nature, came in, 'swallowing formulas' as the French now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest[.]

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