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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damned} (d[a^]md or d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr & vb n. {Damning} (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF damner, dampner, F. damner, fr L. damnare damnatum to condemn, fr damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf {Condemn}, {Damage}.] 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 --Shak. 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. Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Damning \Damn"ing\, a. That damns; damnable; as damning evidence of guilt. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: damning adj : threatening with damnation [syn: {damnatory}]
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