Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an accursed manner.

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  • adverb : In an accursed manner.
  • adverb degree, dated Damnably; extremely.

Etymologies

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From accursed +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • I read in Swift at the beginning of one of the Gulliver chapters: Having been condemned by nature and fortune to an active and even more a restless life And in this accursedly active and even more accursedly restless life, you can imagine in what terrible loneliness I am living.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • I read in Swift at the beginning of one of the Gulliver chapters: Having been condemned by nature and fortune to an active and even more a restless life And in this accursedly active and even more accursedly restless life, you can imagine in what terrible loneliness I am living.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • Kipping asked in that accursedly mild voice -- I could not hear it without thinking of poor Bill

    The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

  • Too many were steeped in a sense of her sacredness, well he wot! and he was unable to find room in his apprehensive mind for any doubt that these others would be accursedly diligent.

    Seventeen 1915

  • Too many were steeped in a sense of her sacredness, well he wot! and he was unable to find room in his apprehensive mind for any doubt that these others would be accursedly diligent.

    Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

  • He saw, as he supposed, "the Okimow in peril of his life," and acted according to the dictates of his accursedly poor discretion.

    The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • So loveless, formal, and yet -- to him so real, so desperately, accursedly real!

    The Patrician John Galsworthy 1900

  • So loveless, formal, and yet -- to him so real, so desperately, accursedly real!

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • REASONS and to systematically rob them of their honest labor because they were too accursedly lazy to labor themselves.

    Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South Timothy Thomas Fortune 1892

  • Not once, since you went to that accursedly out-of-the-way place, has a letter from you found me in the same mood and circumstances to which it was addressed, as being the mood and circumstances in which my own letter had left me, and of course it has been the same with my letters to you.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

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