accursingly

English

Etymology

From accursing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

accursingly (comparative more accursingly, superlative most accursingly)

1. (rare) In an accursing manner.
   • 1873 August 26, Pharpar [pseudonym], “Peccavi; or The Moderator’s Surrender”, in The Bacup Times, and Rossendale Advertiser, number 435, Bacup, Lancs., published 1873 September 6, Poetry section, page 7, column 1:

     No drunkard shall ever accursingly say / That I ever thawrted^[sic] his soul’s destiny, / For a moment I could not the thought endure / That my life’s habits made his life impure, / If all other actions of mine were so free, / That mainly they each would bear scrutiny, / Yet how could I ever such sad truth abide, / If the drunkard through me from the truth turned aside.

   • 1901 February, Jane Nearlein, “The Land of William Tell”, in Overland Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine of the West, volume XXXVII, number 2, San Francisco, Calif.: Frederick Marriott, pages 714–715:

     They fled at once, and would have escaped undiscovered had not two pet ravens of the murdered Count followed and hovered over them, croaking most accursingly as far as Zurich, where the attention of the citizens was attracted to the unusual sight, and the villains were arrested and finally executed.

   • 1926 October 21, an Eaglet [pseudonym], “A Twisted Tale (With no Apologies to Kipling)”, in The Watchtower, volume IV, number 5, Macon, Ga.: […] [T]he students of Wesleyan College, […], page 2, column 3:

     Mr. Kipling is easily forgiven because of his famous, popular writings; but the fact that his poem was snarlingly and accursingly hurled at us, who knew it not, nor cared to know it, can not be easily forgotten nor forgiven.

   • 1927 July 7, Michael J. Phillips, “Cedar Swamp”, in The Okfuskee County News, volume XXIII, number 42, Okemah, Okla., chapter II, page two, column 6:

     “Stephen, you go over there and find what he threw away.” The youth climbed the rail fence. His search was brief; the bottle was easily seen against the brown earth of the field. He handed it accursingly to his father.

   • 1955 October 29, Tom Sims (King Features Syndicate, Inc.), “Good Morning”, in Sand Mountain Reporter, volume 1, number 62, Albertville, Ala., page 1, column 5:

     Two heads are said to be better than one, and perhaps seeing oneself in the mirror doubles the the^[sic] concentration. Either that or the reflection stares accursingly and jolts the mind into arriving at a decision.

   • 1965 October 21, Mary Carpenter, “Advertisement: I was so envious of her figure… then she told me how she discovered the Mrs. Magics at Orchard House”, in The Coventry Evening Telegraph, 75th year, number 23,127, Coventry, West Midlands, section “The Secret”, page 9, column 4:

     “How,” I asked accursingly, “have you managed to keep your figure? What’s your secret?”

   • 1969 October 17, Joy Stilley, “Husband Is the One Who Is the Family Hoarder”, in F. P. Bohn, W[illia]m H. Plummer, editors, The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, volume LX, number 244, Chillicothe, Mo.: Chillicothe Publishing Co., page 5, columns 1–2:

     One day, when he was safely at work, I decided to make a dent in the old newspapers nestled on closet shelves along with old scrapbooks and letters he wrote his parents from camp. I had just gotten down some 50 pounds worth chronicling such events as the start of World War II when in he walked, home early for the first time in months. “What,” he demanded accursingly, “do you have those out for?”

   • 1979, Dee Raymond, “A Love Affair: Part 2”, in Carol Beecroft, editor, Transvestia: For the Heterosexual Crossdresser, volume XVII, number 101, Tulare, Calif.: Chevalier Publications, page 18:

     And then I realized she was a woman. Valerie was on her bed with another woman. Valerie sat up and pulled herself away from the woman who was most reluctant to let her go. / “This is Natalie Birdwell,” Valerie said shakily. “A friend of mine.” / “That I can see,” I said dryly. “But a woman?” / Natalie sat up, too. She was wearing a green blouse and a dark green pantsuit. “I thought she knew about you,” she said accursingly to Valerie.

   • 1982 March 31, Christ Lutheran Church, “The Cup at Calvary”, in The Daily Review, volume 20, number 63, Morgan City, La., page 7, column 1:

     What an example Jesus is to us in our suffering! How we ought to strive to follow Him in His quiet endurance! He spoke only seven times in six hours; He started and He finished with a prayer. Yet today how often, how impassionately, how accursingly people moan and shriek when they suffer!