malison.

A curse or an utterance wishing harm upon someone.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• utter a malison
• a malison against an enemy

On the page

She uttered a malison against the visitor who had broken the promise.

The old account preserved the malison but not the reply that followed it.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular malison; plural malisons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.