execrate

To feel loathing for; to abhor.

Verb

To feel loathing for; to abhor.
- Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ; […] - 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern...
- And were I not a thing for you and me To execrate in anguish, you would be As indigent a stranger to surprise, I fear, as I was once, and as unwise. - 1932, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Prodigal Son”, in Nicodemus, page...
To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.
Synonyms: anathematize comminate curse damn imprecate maledict obdurate
To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.
- He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently. - 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 109:

From Latin exsecrārī, execrārī, from ex (“out”) + sacrāre (“to consecrate, declare accursed”).