Malediction

Definitions

1. A curse.
   countable, uncountable
2. Evil speech.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[H]is friend, with great ebullience of paſſion, many praiſes of his own⟳ good play⟳, and many maledictions on the power of chance, took up the cards, and threw them into the fire.”

“In view⟳ of all that we have⟳ said in the foregoing sections, the many obstacles we appear⟳ to have⟳ surmounted, what casts the pall over our victory celebration? It is the curse of dimensionality, a malediction that has plagued the scientist from earliest days.”

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