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

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."

(Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

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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"Damn" Quotes from Famous Books

... people breakin' the law themselves—they're all breakin' it, and them that's highest is breakin' it most—and it's just like ants climbin' over each other—that's what it's like—and it ain't worth a damn. Look what the city folks do to the farmers. And take the mine owners—they don't obey the law, they don't prop their ceilin's and protect their men as the law says. And now they're goin' to strike over at Springfield, and you hear talk of the law and they're goin' to call out the guards. ...

— Mitch Miller • Edgar Lee Masters

... soberly and half-mournfully that it expressed his full conviction, and he would face defeat rather than suppress it. In the immediate result, it injured his cause; a general comment of Republicans, through the campaign, says Herndon, was "Damn ...

— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam

... place, which he had opposed when out of place; since these things had occurred, the name of Mr. Tierney was calculated to injure the popularity of any man to whom he linked himself. This of itself, this announcement that Mr. Tierney was to attend Sir Samuel Romilly, was enough to damn his popularity with every real friend of Liberty in that city. But, when he appeared side by side with Alderman Noble, all hopes of his ever being popular in Bristol were at an end! I never in my life, on any public occasion, ...

— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 2 • Henry Hunt

... of it back. She hadn't the toupet. But"—he flung a large hand stained with pigments out in an ugly, insolent gesture—"any one of these fleurs du mal would have jumped back from the white to the bronze age when the fit was passed, without caring a damn what anyone thought of them. All the moral bravery is in the underworld. That is why I ...

— December Love • Robert Hichens

... loathed conjugal embrace, back to the arms so hated, and even strong fancy of the absent youth beloved, cannot so much as render supportable. Curse on her, and yet she kisses, fawns and dissembles on, hangs on his neck, and makes the sot believe:—damn her, brute; I'll whistle her off, and let her down the wind, as Othello says. No, I adore the wife, that, when the heart is gone, boldy and nobly pursues the conqueror, and generously owns the whore;—not poorly adds the ...

— Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister • Aphra Behn

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