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Definition of Cursing
1. curse [v] - See also: curse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cursing
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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