Malediction synonyms

măl'ĭ-dĭk'shən

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imprecation
The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone; a prayer that a curse or calamity may befall someone.
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denunciation
The reporting of a person to the authorities for possible criminal prosecution.
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damnation
A damning or being damned
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curse (related)
The definition of a curse is a swear word or a bad word or the state of bad luck caused by someone wishing evil or injury to happen to someone else.
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anathema
A thing or person accursed or damned
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jinx
A condition or period of bad luck that appears to have been caused by a specific person or thing.
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malison
(Archaic) A curse
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slander
Slander is making a false statement about someone that hurts his reputation.
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whammy
A supernatural spell for subduing an adversary; a hex:
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blessing (antonym)
Blessing is defined as God's favor, or a person's sanction or support, or something you ask God for, or something for which you are grateful.
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execration
That which is execrated; a detested thing.
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words (related)
A denunciation invoking a wish or threat of evil or injury
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cuss
The definition of cuss means a curse word, or an odd person or animal.
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Find another word for malediction. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for malediction, like: imprecation, denunciation, damnation, curse, anathema, jinx, malison, slander, whammy, blessing and execration.
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Malediction Sentence Examples

  • I said: Because you have invoked curse and hurled malediction upon both of them.

  • His passion for Cynthia, the theme of his most finished poetry, is second only in interest to that of Catullus for Lesbia; and Cynthia in her fascination and caprices seems a more real and intelligible personage than the idealized object first of the idolatry and afterwards of the malediction of Catullus.

  • Having nothing more to do in the way of visible reformation, yet finding in religion no pleasures to supply the place of the juvenile amusements which he had relinquished, he began to apprehend that he lay under some special malediction; and he was tormented by a succession of fantasies which seemed likely to drive him to suicide or to Bedlam.

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