TL;DR: What is the past tense of smite in the passive voice? Is there an alternative word or series of words with the intended nuance?
I am trying to find an alternative to the past passive tense for smite that doesn’t have the connotation of love. For example:
I was smitten by the hand of justice.
instead of
Jimmy has been smitten with Carla. Cupid must have come early.
It seems that, at least in American vernacular, the majority of use is defined by Dictionary.com's 7th definition.
An alternative word all together would be acceptable as well. I am looking for a word that doesn't connote love to an average speaker, while indicating the gravity of the institution performing the smiting.
The context in which this discussion sprang up was a discussions about a role playing tabletop game (Pathfinder). In it, one of the divine spells is Holy Smite. We were trying to figure out how to talk about being on the business end of that spell in the past tense.
Understandably, it appears to have fallen out of common usage in all aspects in the last century (Google's Ngram Viewer).
Forgive my possible breach in protocol. This is my first post on this exchange.