Today's Word "imprecation"
Published in Vocabulary
imprecation \im-prih-KAY-shuhn\ (noun) - 1 : The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone. 2. A curse.
"While everyone assumed Calvin's daily regular statements to be little more than amusing entreaties, in his mind they were the foulest of imprecations meant to bring them and their entire business down."
Imprecation derives from Latin imprecatio, from imprecari, "to invoke harm upon, to pray against," from in- + precari, "to pray."
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