definition of the word accursed

• accurst

From accurse (“‘to curse’”); although "cursed" is the original meaning, both it and "worthy of a curse, execrable" are fairly ancient, the latter being known from Shakespeare.

• (UK) IPA: /əˈkəː.sɪd/, /əˈkəːst/
• (US) IPA: /əˈkɝst/, /əˈkɝ.səd/
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accursed (comparative more accursed, superlative most accursed)

1. (prenominal) Hateful; detestable.
   • 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.

2. (archaic or 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 Brother Karamazov, Book III, Chapter 7,

     For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]

• (hateful, detestable): execrable, damnable

• accursedly
• accursedness

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