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Accursed vs Devoted - What's the difference?

accursed | devoted |

As adjectives the difference between accursed and devoted

is that accursed is hateful; detestable while devoted is vowed; dedicated; consecrated.

As verbs the difference between accursed and devoted

is that accursed is past tense of accurse while devoted is past tense of devote.

accursed

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) accurst

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (prenominal) Hateful; detestable.
  • * ca. 1789 , ",
    • Accursed' race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you ' accursed sons.
  • * 1819 , ,
    • Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.
  • (archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
  • * 1885 , Charles Abel Heurtley (translator), The Commonitory of ,
    • —if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed .
  • * 1912 , ,
    • For at the very moment I become accursed , at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen

    Synonyms

    * execrable, damnable

    Derived terms

    * accursedly * accursedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (accurse)

    • Anagrams

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    devoted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.
  • Zealous; characterized by devotion.
  • (obsolete) cursed; doomed.

    • Derived terms

    * devotedly * devotedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (devote)