What is the difference between cursed and accursed?
cursed | accursed |
Having some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse.
(obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
*:LEONATO. By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
*:ANTONIO. In faith, she's too curst .
*:BEATRICE. Too curst' is more than '''curst''': I shall lessen God's sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a '''curst''' cow short horns;' but to a cow too ' curst he sends none.
(curse)
(prenominal) Hateful; detestable.
* ca. 1789 , ",
* 1819 , ,
(archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
* 1885 , Charles Abel Heurtley (translator), The Commonitory of ,
* 1912 , ,
(accurse)
As adjectives the difference between cursed and accursed
is that cursed is having some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse while accursed is hateful; detestable.As verbs the difference between cursed and accursed
is that cursed is past tense of curse while accursed is past tense of accurse.cursed
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* (poetic) * curst (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* blessedDerived terms
* cursedness * cursedlyVerb
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*accursed
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* (obsolete) accurstAdjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- —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