Word | imprecation |
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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 |
Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary
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