accursednessn.

1549 W. Baldwin Canticles of Salomon Interpr. Hebrue Wurdes sig. n.iii Hermon, Cursyng or Accursednes.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxx. 739 Shall wee mistrust that our Lorde Jesus Christ hath not sufficient power to doe away all our accursednesse?

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania iv. 444 Let mee bee banished thee, and murther mee; let mee not inioy thee, and let mee perish in perpetuall accursednesse.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 6 Blotting out of the Book of God would have been a good, and accursedness from Christ, a blessedness.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. at Execrableness Accursedness, Impiousness.

1795 J. Macknight New Literal Transl. Apostolical Epist. II. 263 The accursedness of one who is hanged on a tree.

1865 Day-star (Glasgow) 1 Feb. 16/2 The expression implies that a state of accursedness is possible. It implies, moreover, that this possible state of accursedness may be experienced by men.

1892 Manch. Weekly Times 25 Nov. (Suppl.) 4/4 A bigoted bachelor, destined to spend In single accursedness all his young days.

1916 ‘L. Malet’ Damaris iii. vii. 167 That her husband may come and fetch her, even though I never see her again—and take her clean out of all this accursedness before—before—.

1970 Harper's Mag. Apr. 115 The chandeliered..masterfully furnished palace whose accursedness is defined by the passing leer of a butler.

1996 M. Chabon Werewolves in their Youth 206 That fiery eructation of the evil genius, the immemorial accursedness, of his drab Pennsylvania hometown.