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adjective

Damned adj.

1.

Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

2.

Hateful; detestable; abominable. "But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves."

verb

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

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."

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." "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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"Damned" Quotes from Famous Books

... about your fool people," said Rankin. He squinted at the cloud of dust getting bigger and closer beyond the wall of kesh trees that surrounded the rolling acres of his plantation. "That damned new neighbor of mine is ...

— The Helpful Robots • Robert J. Shea

... and Mr. Bardswell had been arguing that my Atheism and Malthusianism made me an unfit guardian for my child; Mr. Ince declared that Mabel, educated by me, would "be helpless for good in this world," and "hopeless for good hereafter, outcast in this life and damned in the next." Mr. Bardswell implored the judge to consider that my custody of her "would be detrimental to the future prospects of the child in society, to say nothing of her eternal prospects." Had not the matter been to me of such ...

— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant

... say "Nix on the War,"' said Selwyn, breaking the sign in his hands as if it were made of matchwood. 'And this is for your damned Deutschland!' ...

— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter

... judge contemplatively, "I'd like to know. That stairway episode—that collision, you remember—may not count for much on the trial; but with a few corroborative circumstances, eh, my boy? Farmer jury; pretty girl; blighted affection; damned villain, you know. But say! she's got something to prove if she wins, under the authorities here, and there are more cases in this state than there ought to be in the whole world; but a summer-resort ...

— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick

... celebrated work upon predestination, he maintained that "material fire is no part of the torments of the damned;"[239] a very singular notion in those times of frightful superstition, when the minds of men were harrowed into despair by descriptions of hell's torments—and I notice it here merely because I should like to be informed in what curious book the said John Scotus Erigena acquired the said notion? ...

— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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