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noun

Damnation n.

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

(Theol.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself. "How can ye escape the damnation of hell?" "Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation."

A sin deserving of everlasting punishment. (R.) "The deep damnation of his taking-off."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Damnation" Quotes from Famous Books

... prejudice against self-destruction and had taken the tablets, just as they intended and evidently desired him to do. But he would not take his own life. He would go on suffering for years before he would send his soul to purgatory by such an act. He believed in damnation. He had lived an honourable, upright life and he maintained that his soul was entitled to the salvation his body had earned for it by its resistance to the evils of the flesh. What, said he, could be more incompatible with a lifelong observance of God's laws than the commission of ...

— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon

... up, and hastened at their door, which opened into the kitchen. All was still. I tried the door;—for the damnation of my soul, it was open. I had no need of a candle, the moon was at full; there was no curtain to their window, and it shone directly upon the bed, and I could see their features as plainly as by the light of day. Grace was either sleeping, or pretending to sleep—I think the ...

— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie

... taste. I may say that here and there Pope manages to be really impressive, and to utter sentiments which really ennobled the deist creed; the aversion to narrow superstition; to the bigotry which 'dealt damnation round the land'; and the conviction that the true religion must correspond to a cosmopolitan humanity. I remember hearing Carlyle quote ...

— English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century • Leslie Stephen

... such as you, are stumbling-blocks to our good folk of Paris! Are you traitor, sirrah?" he continued with passion, "or are you of our brother Alencon's opinions, that you traverse our orders to the damnation of your soul and our discredit? Are you traitor? Or are you heretic? Or what are you? God in heaven, will you answer me, man, or shall I send you where ...

— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

... various parts of Germany. The Faust Book of 1587, the earliest collection of these tales, is of prevailingly theological character. It represents Faust as a sinner and reprobate, and it holds up his compact with Mephistopheles and his subsequent damnation as an example of human recklessness and as a ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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