Curseful vs Purseful - What's the difference?
curseful | purseful |
(archaic) horrendous, horrific
*{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Josephine Preston Peabody, title=The Piper, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Don't name the curseful place. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1890, author=Various, title=Ideal Commonwealths, chapter=, edition=
, passage=They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when any one denies a lawful satisfaction to another, of indolence, of sadness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate. }}
*{{quote-book, year=, author=Tommaso Campanells, title=The City of the Sun, chapter=, edition=
, passage=They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when anyone denies a lawful satisfaction to another of indolence, of sadness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate. }}
As an adjective curseful
is horrendous, horrific.As a noun purseful is
as much as a purse can hold.curseful
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