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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
curse .
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Examples
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Thereupon Allah caused the Treasure to speak out and it said, Wherefore cursest thou me?
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For when Balak bade him to come to him, he said (Num. xxii: 6), βFor I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.β
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Why cursest thou thyself and every other creature?
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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In the last days of that Revolution which thou hailest, amidst the wrecks of the Order thou cursest as Oppression, seek the fulfilment of thy destiny, and await thy cure. '
Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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No; if thou scornest, if thou cursest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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In effect he makes him his god, by the great power he attributes to his word: He whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed, v. 6.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me: come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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04: 022: 006 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
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04: 022: 006 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
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And those thou cursest unto hell must go. (heaven,
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