curst

English

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curst (comparative curster, superlative curstest)

Archaic spelling of cursed.
- 1918, Jeffery Farnol, Our Admirable Betty‎^[1]:
  "Sounds curst funereal, Zeb! O my poor nunky! Go fetch 'em, Sergeant, and let me see 'em—'twill distress and pain me I know but—go fetch 'em!"
- 2011, Sabrina Jeffries, How to Woo a Reluctant Lady‎^[2] (fiction), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 350:
  “Stay back!" She swung the sword at him, praying she could actually use the curst thing.

curst

Archaic spelling of cursed, simple past and past participle of curse.
- 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XVII:
  [...] what hangman hands / Pin to his breast a parchment? His own bands / Read it. Poor traitor, spit upon and curst!
- 2009 April 18, Lavannah, “Big, Broad, Flexible Religion (comment)”, in The Gods Are Bored‎^[3], retrieved 13 May 2013:
  But alas, we are at the far north end of NJ-and our younger daughter has the thrice curst SATs on Saturday.

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