But that is more than I hope for my crypto-criminals, and therefore I take this my only way of giving them celebration and malediction in one breath.
Since then, from no church has there come an adequate explanation of the malediction under which man is supposed to labour because of the natural propensities of beings that never were.
There, public maledictionwas visited on anyone that omitted to guide a stranger on his way.
As I crossed the bridge over the Avon on my return, I paused to contemplate the distant church in which the poet lies buried, and could not but exult in the malediction which has kept his ashes undisturbed in its quiet and hallowed vaults.
This objection assumes two different forms,--one founded on a propheticmalediction in the Old Testament, and the other on professed observations of recent science.
But malediction was useless, the wind could not refuse to winnow the wheat; the machine vanquished the gods.
And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion.
All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.
The Malediction of the Saint is laid upon the Stones of Usniach.
C The Malediction of the Saint is laid upon the Stones of Usniach.
And the saint, wounded in his heart, cast the weapon of his malediction on this child of hell, who, pierced thereby, even at the moment breathed out his soul into the infernal regions.
Patrick gave no malediction to any of the twelve sons of Caelbad, except to the king alone--i.
But ere the accursed crime could be attempted, the saint, raising his left hand, imposed in the name of the Lord his malediction on the malefactor; and he was consumed by fire from heaven, and even like the other nine he perished.
Pretty Pierre went out of one door, a malediction between his white teeth, and Aleck went out of another door with a malediction upon his gloomy lips.
Five minutes afterwards the piano resounded to the touch of Mademoiselle d'Armilly's fingers, and Mademoiselle Danglars was singing Brabantio's malediction on Desdemona.
It was in the midst of one of these impotent fits of malediction that the wainscot door was opened and closed softly, and light footsteps tiptoed to my bedside.
Seeing the sun, I tumbled out of my settle-bed, with a malediction on the sloth that had bound me so fast, and made for the door.
Jennifer came alive with a start, leaping up with a malediction between his teeth upon our dallying.
With an obscene malediction at the body, he sprang upon a horse.
Byng muttered a malediction under his breath and leaned towards her sympathetically.
Spike uttered a terrible malediction on the miserable carpenter, one we do not care to repeat; then he cast the light of the lantern full in the man's face.
A malediction followed, also so familiar to those acquainted with ships, and the black was told to look again.
Oh, he cursed us all; he heaped a blasting malediction upon the whole house of Repentigny, did he not?
I feel The band of steel That so long and heavily has pressed Upon my breast Uplifted, and themalediction Of my affliction Is taken from me, and my weary breast At length finds rest.
And if an Angel Preach any other gospel unto you Than that ye have received, God's malediction Descend upon him!
He will be blessed and happy who for Christ suffers malediction and insults from false hypocrites, because false malediction becomes a blessed benediction to the righteous.
We well know that taxes are necessary, and that the malediction pronounced in the gospel only regards those who abuse their employment to harass the people.
It might have meant pravus publicanus; this word was much more necessary, as the general malediction is a formal contradiction to the words put into the mouth of Jesus Christ: "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's.
Edmund, as he was dragged from his hiding place, pronounced a malediction upon all who should afterwards pass this bridge on their way to be married.
But this malediction was only regarded as the ravings of an imbecile, unaccountable for his words, and little or no heed was paid to this death sentence on the Barcroft name.
I will have my own," said Tekewani, with malediction on the thief who had so shamed him.
A maledictionburst from Gabriel Druse's lips, words sharp and terrible in their intensity.
Jankiel sent a maledictionafter the retreating figure; the two others were silent.
Thus was the territory of Rome greatly increased, after a hundred years of war and intrigue, and thus did the warrior to whom the city owed the most, and whom it had professed to honor, go from it with a malediction on his lips.
As he went away, he added a malediction to the prophecy of the ambassador from Veii, and said that the republic might soon have cause to regret his loss.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "malediction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abuse; anathema; curse; imprecation; jinx; malediction; oath
