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maledictology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌmælədɪkˈtɑləd͡ʒi/ (General-American)

Etymology

From malediction + -ology.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The scientific study of insults and curses.
    • Therefore, the paper follows the outline given above: (i) maledictology – on swearing and reviling, (ii) from the history… 2008, Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich, HimmelHerrgottSakrament! Gopfridstutz! und Sacklzement! Ars Semeiotica, Volume 31, No. 3–4, page 327 http://periodicals.narr.de/index.php/kodikas_code/article/viewFile/1002/981
    • 2015, O. V. Moshtak, Linguistic aspect of evaluative category of pejorativeness. Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія: Філологія 17 (2) (2015): 137-139. http://www.vestnik-philology.mgu.od.ua/archive/v17/part_2/44.pdfhttp://www.irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/cgi-bin/irbis_nbuv/cgiirbis_64.exe?C21COM=2&I21DBN=UJRN&P21DBN=UJRN&IMAGE_FILE_DOWNLOAD=1&Image_file_name=PDF/Nvmgu_filol_2015_17(2)__44.pdf The linguists R. Aman and F. Kinner are called founders of modern science of verbal aggression - maledictology.
    • maledictology * the study of obscene or abusive language 2012, Paul Convery, Inkhorn's Erotonomicon, →ISBN, page 145:
    • This unexplored domain of maledictology offers unique possibilities to those nefarious individuals who may desire to convey either erotic, lecherous, licentious or profane and abusive messages. 2005, Reinhold Aman, Maledicta, volume 10, page 44:
    • 2014, Bill Van, Message-ID: in alt.usage.english https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.usage.english/3ypNokUv-gA/XW0j_o0RECsJ Reinhold Aman (born April 8, 1936) is a former chemical engineer and professor of German, and the publisher of Maledicta, a scholarly journal dedicated entirely to the study of offensive language, also known as maledictology.
    • For in the framework of maledictology (if one may so describe the science of cursing), when a spiritually evolved person pronounces an effective curse, he loses much of his/her accumulated credits. 1998, Varadaraja V. Raman, Bālakāṇḍa: Rāmāyaṇa as Literature and Cultural History, page 282: