malediction

Old Stubbs calls the May-pole a "stinking idol," and says it was brought home with "great veneration," hence his malediction.

Has any malediction of Heaven doomed them to perpetual vassalage?

They listened with the calm of people for whom anathema, reprobation, malediction, and execration were their daily bread.

It was not clear to Lyon whether this malediction had for its object the original or the painter of the portrait.