different between curst vs durst
curst
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)st
Adjective
curst (comparative curster, superlative curstest)
- Archaic spelling of cursed.
Verb
curst
- Archaic spelling of cursed: simple past tense and past participle of curse
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XVII:
- [...] what hangman hands / Pin to his breast a parchment? His own bands / Read it. Poor traitor, spit upon and curst!
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XVII:
Anagrams
- crust, cruts, curts
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durst
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?st/
- Rhymes: -??(?)st
Verb
durst
- (archaic, literary) simple past tense of dare
- Traditional rhyme
- Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail.
- 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2, Scene 2, lines 82-83
- Pretty soul! She durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
- 1634, John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen Act 3, Scene 2
- That thou durst, Arcite!
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book I, line 49
- Who durst defy th' omnipotent to arms.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 6, Monk Samson
- Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me, though I had done no mischief; nor was there a monk who durst speak to me, nor a laic who durst bring me food except by stealth.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarter-deck, and, anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXX, lines 1-2:
- Others, I am not the first,
- Have willed more mischief than they durst
- Traditional rhyme
Usage notes
- The second-person singular (thou being the subject) no longer adds -est (as it did in Early Modern English).
Derived terms
- durstn't/dursn't/dursen't
Anagrams
- turds
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