"maledictology" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1998, Varadaraja V. Raman, Bālakāṇḍa: Rāmāyaṇa as Literature and Cultural History, page 282:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2005, Reinhold Aman, Maledicta, volume 10, page 44:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "Therefore, the paper follows the outline given above: (i) maledictology – on swearing and reviling, (ii) from the history…"
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          "ref": "2012, Paul Convery, Inkhorn's Erotonomicon, →ISBN, page 145:",
          "text": "maledictology * the study of obscene or abusive language",
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          "text": "2014, Bill Van, Message-ID: in alt.usage.english https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.usage.english/3ypNokUv-gA/XW0j_o0RECsJ\nReinhold 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."
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          "text": "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\nThe linguists R. Aman and F. Kinner are called founders of modern science of verbal aggression - maledictology."
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