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- Latin · learned borrowing fromimprecātiō“calling down of curses”
- English todayimprecation
Learned borrowing from Latin imprecātiō (“calling down of curses”), from imprecor (“call down, invoke”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
imprecation
Today it means: The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone; a prayer that a curse or calamity may befall someone. Full definition →
Latin imprecātiō