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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being execrable. [Rare.]

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Examples

  • Think of the monotonous execrableness of the thirty that went before it, to leave this one simple breakfast looming up in my memory like a shot-tower after all these years have gone by!

    Roughing It, Part 2. Mark Twain 1872

  • Think of the monotonous execrableness of the thirty that went before it, to leave this one simple breakfast looming up in my memory like a shot-tower after all these years have gone by!

    Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

  • Think of the monotonous execrableness of the thirty that went before it, to leave this one simple breakfast looming up in my memory like a shot-tower after all these years have gone by!

    Roughing It 1871

  • a tragically serious person, and to think of pat phrases with which to characterize the execrableness of my attempts upon the tin whistle.

    The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment David Grayson 1908

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