cursing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CURSING, participle present tense Execrating; imprecating evil on; denouncing evil; dooming to evil, misery, or vexation. CURSING, noun Execration; the uttering of a curse; a dooming to vexation or misery.
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