imprecation

January 6, 2009 | 0 Comments
a spoken curse
William Safire has a great "On Language" column in the December 31, 2008, edition of the New York Times Magazine. About the words imprecation and execration, he writes: "These bookish terms of excessive condemnation are out of critical fashion, merely evoking the exclamation by Snoopy, the cartoon character from Peanuts, 'Curse you, Red Baron!'"

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