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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Damned" Quotes from Famous Books

... singing of the triumphs of the risen Christ. Yet to-morrow some of these white worshippers, in the workshops and in the parks, will be expressing an opposite sentiment to that conveyed in their songs of praise, namely, "Down with the verdoemde schepsels" (damned black creatures) — the Natives — for whom also, these white worshippers say, ...

— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

... the keys. It's better than nothing. And I'm writing something for my degree. It's rather good. If I could only keep well!" said the boy impatiently. "It's this damned health that ...

— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... great. Think what is represented by torment, by burning flame, by insupportable thirst, by that state when a single drop of water would afford relief. Remember that all this is but a representation of the pains of the damned, and that this will have no relief, day nor night, but will continue from year to year, and age to age, and without any end, and you have a faint view of the sufferings of those ...

— Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman • William L. Stone

... damned! I don't want to be unbiased. I won't be. I had enough of being unbiased when I was on the Bench, and I don't care what any of you unbiased people say—I believe ...

— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett

... style? What am I goin' to say to my landlord? It'll about ruing me, this will; and after you bein' a lodger 'ere for five year and more, and regarded by me and Maria in the light of one of the family. It's 'ard—it's damned 'ard!" ...

— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey

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