English

Verb

dampne ‎(third-person singular simple present dampnes, present participle dampning, simple past and past participle dampned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To damn.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Geoffrey Chaucer
   • 1547, Anne Askew, The lattre examinacyon of Anne Askewe in 1996, Elaine V. Beilin, The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, page 86:

     But lete them be ware least they dampne not their owne wretched sowles.

   • Sir Thomas Wyat (1503 – 1542), Certayne Psalmes in 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets: from Chaucer to Cowper, volume 2, page 395:

     But when he wayeth the fault, and recompence, / He dampneth this hys dede and fyndeth playne / Atwene them two no whytt equiualence: […]

   • Thomas Cranmer (1489 – 1556), Certayne Psalmes in 1836, Richard Challoner, Modern British Martyrology, Keating, Brown & Co., page 58:

     For hereby shall be a great occasion to satisfie the Princess Dowager and the Lady Mary, which doe thinke that they sholde dampne thair sowles if thay sholde abandon and relinquish thair astats.

Anagrams

• dampen, madnep