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cursefully en · ADV

Etymology

From curse + -ful + -ly.

Meanings

1. (archaic) In a curseful manner; horrendously; horrifically.
   • Was not thou most curstfully madd to sever thy selfe from such an unequalde rarity? 1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
   • Let our heavenly Dante tell how cursefully the miserly and prodigal clash together in business circles here; how the wrathful “boil and bubble” in the Stygian lake of their own making; […] 1889, George Leonard Cheney, Belief, page 113:
2. (dated, uncommon) Peevishly; while cursing.
   • At the dock he communicated the interview to the gang, and amid the jeers of the shore workers, they cursefully hoisted sail and headed the vessel back to Port Anthony again. 1922, Frederick William Wallace, The Shack Locker: Yarns of the Deep Sea Fishing Fleets, page 46:
   • I really, dear lady, can not again receive any object of value from your hands, of value or even of no value, and I loudly won’t hear of so much as even cursefully growling Thanks at you for those before me. 1902 December 12, Henry James, “[Letter to Jessie Allen]”, in Leon Edel, editor, Letters, volume 4, published 1984, page 252:

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