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accursed
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) accurst [13th C.]
Etymology
- First attested in the early 13th century.
- From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ?cursian, from ? + cursen, from curs (“curse”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??k??.s?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /??k?.s?d/
- ,
Adjective
accursed (comparative more accursed, superlative most accursed)
- (prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
- ca. 1789, William Blake, "Tiriel",
- Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 35,
- Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:
- […] Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle; […]
- ca. 1789, William Blake, "Tiriel",
- (archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
- 1885, Charles Abel Heurtley (translator), The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8,
- […] —if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.
- 1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, Book III, Chapter 7,
- For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]
- 1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, The Return of the King/Book V, Chapter 10
- We did not come here to waste words in treating with Sauron, faithless and accursed; still less with one of his slaves. Begone!
- 1885, Charles Abel Heurtley (translator), The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8,
Synonyms
- (hateful, detestable): execrable, damnable
Derived terms
- accursedly
- accursedness
Translations
Verb
accursed
- simple past tense and past participle of accurse
Anagrams
- cardecus, cue cards
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accurses
English
Verb
accurses
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accurse
Anagrams
- accusers, carcuses
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