Definition of Malediction
malediction (noun) - evil speaking; a cursing; the utterance of a curse or execration; also, a curse
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How can malediction be used in a sentence?
He called down a malediction on the man that did it.
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nullThe preface concludes with the following malediction:
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nullYet the book is no "long and lofty malediction" either.
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nullAfter a lengthy malediction, she finally ran out of words.
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nullIt seems that the malediction of Balaam was much to be feared.
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nullHamas is one of the names of the malediction of the Palestinian people.
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nullExclusion carefully rapped in the rodmontade of morality is malediction.
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nullWas it a prayer or a malediction, a forecast or a memory, a fear or a regret?
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nullMy father has been so good as to take off the heavy malediction he laid me under.
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nullBut what shall I do, if my father cannot be prevailed upon to recall his malediction?
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nullThe alternative is not the malediction of the ivory tower, another destroyer of creativity.
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nullMy dearest, dearest creature, would you incur a maternal, as I have a paternal, malediction?
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nullWhat follows is a deeply psychological ghost story of memory and malediction, loss and remorse.
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nullEvery woman within range of her lilting Yiddish malediction gasped and gave a mighty head-shake.
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nullI had the distinct impression that the lady was dealing in observation, however, not malediction.
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nullNaturally, there has been any amount of special pleading, to explain our fall, our malediction and our two-facedness.
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nullAll I have to hope for is, first, that my father will absolve me from his heavy malediction: and next, for a last blessing.
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nullAll she had to hope for was, that her father would revoke his malediction, previous to the last blessing she should then implore.
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nullAll these precautions certainly prove the opinion which then prevailed, that the malediction of a priest, whatever it was, drew fatal consequences after it.
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nullWell, Flaubert said that 'honours dishonour' the writer, and Jean-Paul Sartre declined this particular honour, but whether as malediction or malady one cannot say.
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nullHis first published novel 'Abath al-Aqdar (1939), "Ironies of Fate", dealing with "the malediction of Ra", was followed by two other historical novels about ancient Egypt.
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nullIt represented -- was -- the inner creature, the animal spirit, resident in all men, all women, triggered into life by a malediction or a wry blessing, by magic, or only at the madness of full moon.
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nullI have reason to know that a local friend of ours (on whom I beg to bestow a passing but a hearty malediction, with the kind permission of my reverend friend) sneaks to and fro, and dodges up and down.
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nullThe tenants, therefore, were not actually turned out of doors among the snow-wreaths, and were allowed wherewith to procure butter-milk and peas-bannocks, which they ate under the full force of the original malediction.
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nullNow La Perle faces the pistol, certain that "Chance would not desert him now," but Uri Bram's shot is true: "Fortune did not whirl, but gay San Francisco dimmed and faded, and as the sun-bright snow turned black and blacker, he breathed his last malediction on the chance he had misplayed."
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nullPray for your father, then, I repeat, that he incur not the malediction he has announced on you; since he has broken, as you see, a command truly divine; while you, by obeying that other precept which enjoins us to pray for them that persecute and curse us, will turn the curse into a blessing.
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nullTell him, that my guilt, in giving this man an opportunity to spirit me away from my tried, my experienced, my natural friends, (harshly as they treated me,) stares me every day more and more in the face; and still the more, as my fate seems to be drawing to a crisis, according to the malediction of my offended father!
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nullA boy was born to them, but later, when a second child was about to be brought into the world, a great rain and flood came and washed away half of the garden, whereupon the woman cursed the rain, the result of her malediction being that when the child was born, it was only half a human being and had but one eye, one arm, and one leg.
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Tips for Using malediction in a Sentence
You may have an easier time writing sentences with malediction if you know what words are likely to come before or after it, or simply what words are often found in the same sentence.
Frequent Predecessors
Words that often come before malediction in sentences. For example: "the malediction" or "a malediction"
- the
- a
- of
- and
- his
- this
- divine
- la
- or
- her
Frequent Successors
Words that often come after malediction in sentences. For example: "malediction ." or "malediction of"
- .
- of
- on
- upon
- and
- against
- which
- is
- in
- that
Associated Words
Words that aren't necessarily predecessors or successors, but are often found in the same sentence.
- curse
- prayer
- http
- com
- released
- album
Alternate Definitions
- malediction (noun) - in <em>anc. eccles, law</em>, a curse annexed to the donation of lands to churches or religious institutions against those who should violate their rights
- malediction (noun) - a proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction