accursed

accursed or accurst (əˈkɜːsɪd, əˈkɜːst)

—*adj*
1.	under or subject to a curse; doomed
2.	(prenominal) hateful; detestable; execrable

[Old English ācursod, past participle of ācursian to put under a curse]

accurst or accurst

—*adj*

[Old English ācursod, past participle of ācursian to put under a curse]

accursedly or accurst

—*adv*

ac'cursedness or accurst

—n

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accursed

early 13c., acursede "lying under a curse," pp. of obs. acursen "pronounce a curse upon, excommunicate," from a- intens. prefix + cursein (see curse). The extra -c- is 15c., mistaken Latinism. Weakened sense of "worthy of a curse" is from 1590s.

Example sentences

The accursed critical habits,-the being called upon to judge and pronounce, must make it quite a different thing to the former.

The traffic might some day go the way of other accursed evils by a mighty uprising of the people.

The accursed rage that brought pain to thousands of the achaeans.

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"... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!"

-Susan B. Anthony