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Definition of Accursedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accursedness
Literary usage of Accursedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War and Christianity: From the Russian Point of View. Three Conversations by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Stephen Graham (1915)
"... forgive me my professional accursedness ? POLITICIAN.—Why put the question so
fantastically ? It is as if we'd been asking you to do something special. ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"... less expansive on the blessedness of faith than on the accursedness of infidelity.
Above all, let him set up as an interpreter of prophecy, ..."
3. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"How many crowned despots," says Professor von Hoist, " can be mentioned in the
history of the old world who have done things which compare in accursedness ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1892)
"As to slavery I had been little disturbed ; it was a gangrene sure in time to
die of its own accursedness. But the thought of a dismembered land, and, ..."
5. Scottish Vernacular Literature: A Succinct History by Thomas Finlayson Henderson (1898)
"No one ever asserted more convincingly man's inherent right to the fulness of
his humanity, or more vehemently denied the innate accursedness of present ..."
6. A Contrast Between Calvinism and Hopkinsianism by Ezra Stiles Ely (1811)
"2, To show us the righteousness which God will accept, that we being convinced
of sin, imbecility, and accursedness may be moved to seek that perfect ..."
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