accurst

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  • They report him to be a wretch forsaken, and accurst by all the world; that the vermin which are swarming all over him, are too nice to feed on his infectious flesh; besides which, I fear, that if I should relate what you say concerning him, our priests would be taken either for idiots, or men of false understanding, or for envious persons, and impostors.” —  The Works of John Dryden
  • And proud oppression's car accurst, drove madly o'er the land; —  Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
  • The private wound is deepest: time most accurst —  The Man Shakespeare
  • And his kin who are accurst. ' —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • He knew what the Lens was, and why. —  First Lensman
 

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