Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of or containing an imprecation; invoking evil or a curse; maledictory: as, the imprecatory passages in the Psalms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invoking evil.
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- adjective that
imprecates - adjective that
invokes evil
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Examples
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Nor are these isolated instances: depending on how you count them, the biblical book includes about 20 "imprecatory," or cursing, psalms among its 150.
John Backman: Praying The Most Difficult Psalms John Backman 2011
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Nor are these isolated instances: depending on how you count them, the biblical book includes about 20 "imprecatory," or cursing, psalms among its 150.
John Backman: Praying The Most Difficult Psalms John Backman 2011
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Nor are these isolated instances: depending on how you count them, the biblical book includes about 20 "imprecatory," or cursing, psalms among its 150.
John Backman: Praying The Most Difficult Psalms John Backman 2011
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I’m not personally outraged — merely amused and mildly irritated — but I think the outrage is traceable not to the idea of imprecatory prayer, but to the screwed up moral code behind it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Former Leader of the Southern Baptist Convention 2007
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Sometimes called the imprecatory psalms, these hymns request God’s help in destroying an enemy.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Sometimes called the imprecatory psalms, these hymns request God’s help in destroying an enemy.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Sometimes called the imprecatory psalms, these hymns request God’s help in destroying an enemy.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Sometimes called the imprecatory psalms, these hymns request God’s help in destroying an enemy.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Diana Butler Bass at Beliefnet explains that Psalm 109 is one of the "imprecatory" prayers, "a lament in the form of petition to destroy one's enemies."
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Houstongolfnut 2009
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Diana Butler Bass at Beliefnet explains that Psalm 109 is one of the "imprecatory" prayers, "a lament in the form of petition to destroy one's enemies."
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