malediction

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A curse. countable,uncountable
    — [H]is friend, with great ebullience of paſſion, many praiſes of his own good play, and many maledictions on the power of chance, took up the cards, and threw them into the fire.
  2. Evil speech. countable,uncountable

词形变化

maledictions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
maledictology
相关词
maledictive maledictory

词源

From late Middle English malediccion, from Middle French malédiction, from Latin maledictiō (“curse”) from malus (“evil”) + dictiō (“speech”) noun of action from perfect passive participle dictus (“spoken”), from verb dīcō (“speak”).
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