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Adjective

accursed (comparative more accursed, superlative most accursed)

  • (prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
    • ✤ Synonyms: execrable, damnable
    • ✤ * Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father//Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons.*1
    • ✤ Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.2
    • ✤ […] 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; […]3
  • (theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
    • ✤ Synonyms: condemned, fey, ill-fated; see also Thesaurus: doomed
    • ✤ * Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war*4
    • ✤ […] —if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.5
    • ✤ For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]6
    • ✤ We did not come here to waste words in treating with Sauron, faithless and accursed; still less with one of his slaves. Begone!7

Verb

accursed

  • simple past and past participle of accurse

Etymology

From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā- +‎ cursian, from curs (“curse”). First attested in the 13th century.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /əˈkɜː.sɪd/
  • (US) IPA: /əˈkɝ.sɪd/
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Footnotes

  1. c. 1789, William Blake, Tiriel: ↩

  2. 1819, Ivanhoe, Walter Scott, Chapter 35: ↩

  3. 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532: ↩

  4. c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv: ↩

  5. 1885, Charles Abel Heurtley, transl., The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8: ↩

  6. 1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, chapter 7, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Brothers Karamazov, Book III, translation of original in Russian: ↩

  7. 1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, chapter 10, in The Return of the King, Book V: ↩

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