| We had a fellow, on the one hand, with a temperament given to bullying execratory outbursts, who had demonstrated neither an interest in nor knowledge of our Constitution. |
| The new society soon forgot the meaning of the execratory oath that the members were obliged to take at their initiation. |
| An execratory oath is that by which a man, in order to obtain faith in what he says, calls down some evil upon himself or others belonging to him. |
| At the end of the long 1914 sequence in the middle of the novel, the crosses disappear, which prepares the reader for the bombed-out execratory landscape of 1945 just ahead. |
| The oaths which were and are most usual in these Indians are execratory. |
| Common cursing achieves its desired result in part by breaking that taboo whereas execratory cursing conveys its force through its literal propositions. |
