accursed

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/əˈkɜː.sɪd/ (UK)
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/əˈkɜː.sɪd/ (UK) · /əˈkɝ.sɪd/ (US)

Definition of accursed

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
    “Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons.”
    “Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.”
    “[…]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;[…]”
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adj

  1. Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
    “Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons.”
    “Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.”
    “[…]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. Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
    “Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war”
    “[…]—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.”
    “For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]”
    “We did not come here to waste words in treating with Sauron, faithless and accursed; still less with one of his slaves. Begone!”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of accurse

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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.

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