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accursedly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /əˈkɚ.səd.li/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree English accursed Middle English -ly English -ly English accursedly From accursed + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an accursed manner.
   • And now, when Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new, unknown odor whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage—clung to those bodies and sparkled less voluminously on a smooth part of the accursedly resculptured wall in a series of grouped dots—we understood the quality of cosmic fear to its uttermost depths 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness:
2. (dated, qualifier:degree) Damnably; extremely.

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