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Invective

Invective

Invective — harsh, cutting speech — often touches the danger of passionate anger that estranges, or being closed in by others' deceits. The dream may ask where rage is rising in you that might cost you a close companion, whose hostile words are hemming you in, and how an outburst, given or received, could damage a bond you'd rather keep.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for invective, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream of using invectives, warns you of passionate outbursts of anger, which may estrange you from close companions.

To hear others using them, enemies are closing you in to apparent wrong and deceits.