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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Damn \Damn\ (d[acr]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damned} (d[acr]md or d[acr]m"n[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damning} (d[acr]m"[icr]ng or d[acr]m"n[icr]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. {Condemn}, {Damage}.] 1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. --Shak. 2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse. 3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. --Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope. Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Damn \Damn\, v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. [bd]While I inwardly damn.[b8] --Goldsmith. | |
