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Imprecation N Spoken Curse Persons Follow Music Mary

Word imprecation
Definition n. A spoken curse.
Sentence The only persons who seemed to follow the music were Mary Jane herself, her hands racing along the key-board or lifted from it at the pauses like those of a priestess in momentary imprecation, and Aunt Kate standing at her elbow to turn the page.
Source Dubliners, "The Dead", p. 212

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