execrative

English

Etymology

execrate +‎ -ive

Noun

execrative (plural execratives)

1. 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

execrative (comparative more execrative, superlative most execrative)

1. 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

• execratively

Further reading

• “execrative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.