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Webster 1913 Edition
Damn
Damn
(dăm)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Damned
(dămd or dăm′nĕd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Damning
(dăm′ĭng or dăm′nĭng)
.] 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. Shakespeare
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.
☞ Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
Damn
,Verb.
I.
To invoke damnation; to curse.
“While I inwardly damn.” Goldsmith.
Webster 1828 Edition
Damn
DAMN
, v.t.1.
To sentence to eternal torments in a future state; to punish in hell.2.
To condemn; to decide to be wrong or worthy of punishment; to censure; to reprobate.He that doubteth is damned if he eat. Rom xiv
3.
To condemn; to explode; to decide to be bad, mean, or displeasing, be hissing or any mark of disapprobation; as, to damn a play, or a mean author.4.
A word used in profaneness; a term of execration.