Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun malediction
1 sense of malediction
Sense 1
imprecation, malediction -- (the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob")
=> execration, condemnation, curse -- (an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group)