Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being under a curse, or of being doomed to execration or to evil.
- noun Blasphemous, profane, or evil speech; cursing.
- noun Shrewishness; maliciousness; contrariness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.
- noun Wickedness; sin; cursing.
- noun Shrewishness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
cursed .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word cursedness.
Examples
-
Mr. Watkins Tottle had long lived in a state of single blessedness, as bachelors say, or single cursedness, as spinsters think; but the idea of matrimony had never ceased to haunt him.
Sketches by Boz 2007
-
For without any dread, ne were not cursedness and sin of Christian men, they should be lords of all the world.
-
Would a World Series championship really provide a cathartic liberation from generations of cursedness?
Philocrites: Red Sox theology watch: After the scapegoat. 2004
-
Would a World Series championship really provide a cathartic liberation from generations of cursedness?
-
Saint Silvester, where be nuns of an hundred orders: and it is yet all broilly, as though it were half-burnt, for the Emperor Julianus above-said, of his cursedness and malice, let burn that part with the other bones, and yet it sheweth; and this thing hath been proved both by popes and by emperors.
-
And yet in this sense of cursedness the Vicar had found shelter for his self-esteem.
The Three Sisters May Sinclair 1904
-
And therefore we should never think of original sin, or of the sinfulness and cursedness of our natural condition, but we should remember what a grievous sin covenant-breaking is.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
-
And as the family attribute a kind of sacredness, or cursedness, to the flower, they can hardly be prevailed upon to give any of the seeds, or allow it to be propagated elsewhere, though the king should send to ask it.
-
She had never struck even the one-horned cow that would, for very cursedness, kick over the milk-pail!
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
-
Their cursedness was as sharp, though their horns were not so long; and what they lacked in deed and actions, they made up in desires and endeavours.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.