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cursedness|ˈkɜːsɛdnɪs|
Also curstness.
[f. cursed + -ness.]
1. The condition of being cursed or under a curse; damnation; misery.
†b. pl. Miseries, misfortunes (obs. rare).
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 7228 Woo to þo þat erly..haunte þe tauerne..Cursednes hem folowyþ at þe endyng. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 275/3 To haue soo many cursidnesses or ylle happes. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 334/2 Them that were slaues to Sathan, and ouer the eares in the deepe bottomelesse pitte of cursednesse. 1651–3Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xi. 142 The Poet describes the cursednesse of their posterity. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 265/1 Mr. Watkins Tottle had long lived in a state of single blessedness, as bachelors say, or single cursedness, as spinsters think. 1875T. Hill True Order Studies 140 If you would..know the reality and cursedness of sin.
†2. The condition of being execrably wicked; abominable wickedness.
b. (with a and pl.) An act or practice of wickedness. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 1575 (Gött.) Þair cursednes was noght vnkid. c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 310 Ydel sweryng is a cursednes. 1474Caxton Chesse 30 In moche cursidnes and wickednes. 1549–62Sternhold & H. Ps. x. 7 His mouth is full of cursedness. a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxvi. (1640) 75 By walking in a way of cursednesse.
†3. An accursed thing, ‘abomination’. Obs. rare.
c1550Cheke Matt. xxiv. 15 When ie se y⊇ cursednes of desolation, which was spooken of bi daniel y⊇ propheet, standing in an holi place.
4. (Usually curstness.) Malignancy or perversity of disposition, ill temper, crabbedness; fierceness, savageness; virulence (of poison). Obs. or arch.
c1386Chaucer Merch. Prol. 27 As I..Koude tellen of my wyues cursednesse. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 167 He that is to every man contrary, And he that bostithe of his cursidnesse. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 209 With spitefull speach, curstnesse and crueltie. 1600Holland Livy xxvii. xxxiv. 654 As the curstnesse and rigor of parents, is to be mollified by patience. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 18 Profane persons swear, as dogs bark, not ever for curstness, but for custom. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. xxi. xix. (1678) 474 The Basilisk far exceeds all Kinds of Serpents in the curstness of its poison. 1870Ramsay Remin. (ed. 18) p. xxvi, ‘Curstness’ (or crabbedness) of man's nature. |