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Damn v. t. (past & past part. damned; pres. part. damning)

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."

(Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

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." "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer." Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.

Damn v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn."

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"Damn" Quotes from Famous Books

... George. Over the mainland. That's St. Anne. We pass this side of it. Put the mufflers on. This damn thing ...

— Beyond the Vanishing Point • Raymond King Cummings

... away, she heard from a neighbouring partition the hoarse expostulations of one of Art's blind acolytes: "Say, f'r Christ's sake, Delmour, what the hell's loose in your bean! Yeh done it wrong an' yeh know damn ...

— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers

... corrected; he ought not to be reproved, or to be disgraced, or the authority or respect to your tribunals to be impaired. In cases in which declaratory bills have been made, where by violence and corruption some fundamental part of the Constitution has been struck at; where they would damn the principle, censure the persons, and annul the acts; but where the law having been, by the accident of human frailty, depraved, or in a particular instance misunderstood, where you neither mean to rescind the ...

— Thoughts on the Present Discontents - and Speeches • Edmund Burke

... Attorney-General, Seymour, opposed this project on the ground that the money was needed for "better purposes" than educating clergymen. Rev. Dr. Blair, agent and advocate of the endowment, pleading: "The people have souls to be saved," Seymour retorted: "Damn your souls, make tobacco." But Blair persisted and succeeded, himself becoming first president of the college. The initial commencement exercises took ...

— History of the United States, Vol. I (of VI) • E. Benjamin Andrews

... drove him wild. He tore his hands loose, and flung her off. "Answer me," he cried. "God damn ...

— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

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