Adjective

(en adjective)

deserving contempt

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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