Definition of Cursing

1. Verb. (present participle of curse) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cursing

1. curse [v] - See also: curse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cursing

curseder
cursedest
cursedly
cursedness
cursednesses
curseful
curser
cursers
curses
cursest
curseth
curseworthy
curship
cursi
cursin'
cursing (current term)
cursingly
cursings
cursitating
cursitor
cursitors
cursive
cursive script
cursively
cursiveness
cursivenesses
cursives
cursor
cursor key
cursor keys

Literary usage of Cursing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life and Death of Mr. Badman and The Holy War by John Bunyan (1905)
"The other kind of cursing, is to wish that some evil might happen to, and overtake this or that person or thing: And this kind of cursing, Job counted a ..."

2. Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the by William Hector (1876)
"HE cursing and beating of parents was declared a capital offence by an Act of the Scottish Parliament, 1661, cap. 20, when the offending child was above ..."

3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"Then a-cursing we will go, my boy.', A-cursing we will go ! If any man denies the rights Of Holy Roman Church, And holds that stain of any sin Its head or ..."

4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... and cursing the King: l GEORGE L AD 1715. [Now first published from the ... the cursing of his majestic, and imprecating evils upon him, the cursing and ..."

5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1813)
"As also, that by the law of God, the laws of this, and all other well governed nations, the cursing of his majestie, and imprecating evils upon him, ..."

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