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Damned   /dæmd/   Listen
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



... it rich since you've been away, lad, struck it rich, which is all through killing that damned shark," Palmer Billy cried, capering up to him. "But—what price?" he exclaimed, as he stopped and stared at the horse. "Where did you ...
— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott
... insufficient. This insufficiency of man for himself, Calvinistic and Lutheran Protestantism in their turn condemned as a depravity worthy of the deepest hell, making man a wretch maimed in his very nature so cruelly and fatally as to be damned for what he could not help being guilty of. Meantime the Catholic Church was seen by Isaac Hecker as having elements the most attractive. It recognized in man his native dignity; it saw in him a being made God-like ...
— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott
... great general knowledge, that Ireland persevered in fresh forgeries until an entire play was "discovered." It was a tragedy founded on early British history, and named Vortigern. It was produced at Kemble's Theatre, and was damned. Ireland's downward course commenced from that night. He ultimately published confessions of his frauds, and died very ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... dreadful deprivation and a terrible increase of suffering to the winning and helpless little creature? Therefore he at last contented himself with pouring the whole of his daily allowance of water into May's bottle, and cheerfully submitted for her innocent sake to endure the tortures of the damned. ...
— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood
... Hardin, softly. He seats himself by her side and takes the lovely hands in his. His persuasive voice flows like honey. "I am now surrounded by enemies. I am badly compromised. I am all tied up. I fear the Union League, the government spies, and the damned Yankee officers here. One foolish move would utterly ruin me. If you will take this child you can take any name you wish. No one knows you in Paris. I will have the bankers and our Southern friends vouch for you in society. I will ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage


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