malediction
Word family adjectivemaledicentmaledictmaledictivemaledictorynounmalediction
mal·e·dic·tion /ˌmæləˈdɪkʃən/ noun [countableC] old-fashioned formalROMMAGIC a wish that something bad will happen to someone 诅咒 SYN curse malediction• It is a kind of malediction.• As if that quest were not macabre enough in itself, I went as if under some sort of malediction. Origin malediction (1300-1400) Late Latin maledictio, from Latin maledicere “to speak evil”