sense of curse

  • 1curse — n Curse, imprecation, malediction, anathema are comparable when they denote a denunciation that conveys a wish or threat of evil. Curse (opposed to blessing)usually implies a call upon God or a supernatural power to visit punishment or disaster… …

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  • 2Curse of the Blue Tattoo —   …

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  • 3Curse of dimensionality — The curse of dimensionality refers to various phenomena that arise when analyzing and organizing high dimensional spaces (often with hundreds or thousands of dimensions) that do not occur in low dimensional settings such as the physical space… …

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  • 4Curse of the Bambino — Babe Ruth The Bambino in his earlier days as a pitcher for the Red Sox The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition cited as a reason for the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86 year period from 1918 to… …

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  • 5Curse and mark of Cain — Mark of Cain redirects here. For other uses, see Mark of Cain (disambiguation). In Christianity and Judaism, the curse of Cain and the mark of Cain refer to the passages in the Biblical Book of Genesis where God declared that Cain, the firstborn… …

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  • 6Curse of Ham — Noah damning Ham, 19th century painting by Ivan Stepanovitch Ksenofontov The Curse of Ham is a possible misnomer,[1] for the Curse of Canaan. The curse refers to Noah cursing Ham s offspring Canaan, for Ham s own transgression against his father …

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  • 7Curse of the Black Sox — The Curse of the Black Sox (also known as the Curse of Shoeless Joe ) (1919–2005) was a superstition or scapegoat cited as one reason for the failure of the Chicago White Sox to win the World Series from 1917 until 2005. As with other supposed… …

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  • 8curse —    A SPELL or action to harm, often done by invoking the help of DEMONs, other spirits, and deities. In Christian tradition, a curse can cause demonic problems, including POSSESSION. The person who makes the curse ultimately suffers the effects… …

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  • 9Curse of Blackmoor Manor — Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor Developer(s) Her Interactive Publisher(s) DreamCatcher …

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  • 10curse — curser, n. /kerrs/, n., v., cursed or curst, cursing. n. 1. the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc. 2. a formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another. 3. the act of reciting such a …

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