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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult);
- Example: "he suffered the imprecations of the mob"
[syn: imprecation, malediction]

2. a slanderous accusation;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Imprecation \Im`pre*ca"tion\, n. [L. imprecatio: cf. F. impr['e]cation.] The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse. [1913 Webster] Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations. --Motley. Syn: Malediction; curse; execration; anathema. See Malediction. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

imprecation n 1: the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob" [syn: imprecation, malediction] 2: a slanderous accusation
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "imprecation": adjuration, anathema, appeal, application, ban, beseechment, bid, blasphemy, call, clamor, commination, cry, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, entreaty, evil eye, excommunication, execration, fulmination, hex, imploration, imploring, invocation, invocatory plea, malediction, malison, malocchio, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, plea, prayer, profanity, proscription, rogation, suit, supplication, swearing, thundering, whammy