different between accused vs accursed

English

Etymology

• (noun): First attested in the 1590's.
• From accuse (“blame”) +? -ed

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?.?kjuzd/

Verb

accused

1. simple past tense and past participle of accuse

Noun

accused (plural accused)

1. (law) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.

   Synonym: accusee

   Antonym: accuser

Usage notes

• (noun): Most often preceded by the definite article the. The plural accuseds is non-standard, and not widely used

Translations

Adjective

accused (comparative more accused, superlative most accused)

1. Having been accused; being the target of accusations.
   • 1883, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Landmarks of Recent History, 1770-1883, Walter Smith (publisher), pages 11–12:

     This power chiefly fell to the queen, and she was more accused than ever of too much leaning towards her own country; […]

   • 1891, Charles Grant Robertson, Caesar Borgia: The Stanhope Essay for 1891, B.H. Blackwell, pages 8–9:

     Naples had an almost stronger preference for the interposition of Spain, while the great republic of Venice in the eyes of Italy stood accused of aspiring to bring the whole peninsula under its sway, […]

   • 2007, Patricia Love and Steven Stosny, How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking about It: Finding Love Beyond Words, Random House, ?ISBN, page 188:

     If she felt unimportant, you showed her that she was important to you. If she felt accused, you reassured her. If she felt guilty, you helped her feel better.

Translations

Anagrams

• succade

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) accurst [13^th 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)

1. (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; […]

2. (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!

Synonyms

• (hateful, detestable): execrable, damnable

Derived terms

• accursedly
• accursedness

Translations

Verb

accursed

1. simple past tense and past participle of accurse

Anagrams

• cardecus, cue cards