execrative
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editexecrative (plural execratives)
- A word used for cursing; an oath.
- 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
- king cyning, lording, shilling, sweeting Sh, and the Saxon execrative nithing
Adjective
editexecrative (comparative more execrative, superlative most execrative)
- Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- 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[.]
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “execrative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.