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curseful en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English cursful, equivalent to curse + -ful.

Meanings

1. (archaic) horrendous, horrific
   • 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. 1885, Tommaso Campanella, “City of the Sun”, in R. W. Halliday, transl., Ideal Commonwealths, London: George Routledge and Sons:
   • Don't name the curseful place. 1910, Josephine Preston Peabody, The Piper:

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Deriveds

cursefully