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damnable, a.|ˈdæmnəb(ə)l|
Also 4–6 dampnable.
[a. F. damnable, in 12–13th c. dampnable, ad. L. dam(p)nābilis, f. damnāre: see damn.]
†1. Worthy of condemnation; to be reprobated; highly reprehensible. Obs. (or merged in 2, 4.)
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 341 Myche more ben þei dampnable þat letten Goddis lawe to shyne. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys 123 Than it [daunsynge] in erth no game is more damnable. 1634Prynne Documents agst. Prynne (Camden) 21 For a man to endeavour to defraude the Kinge of this treasure is a most damnable offence. 1841Emerson Lect., Conservative Wks. (Bohn) II. 268, I observe that there is a jealousy of the newest, and that the seceder from the seceder is as damnable as the pope himself.
†b. Liable to judicial condemnation. Obs. rare.
c1460Towneley Myst. 193 Sir Cayphas, bi my wytt, he shuld be dampnabille.
2. Subject to divine condemnation; liable to or worthy of damnation.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3768 Þys synne ys nat dampnable But hyt be seyde custummable. a1340Hampole Psalter xvii. 25 Þe pynes of dampnabil men. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 475/2 The contrarye beliefe pertayneth to the damnacion of our soules, if heresye be damnable. 1614H. Greenwood Jayle Delivery 468 O what must poore lamentable damnable I doe to be saved. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. xxxvi, Those enthusiasts who look upon every schism from the established articles of faith as damnable. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1366 Who makes us damnable..of his own will.
†3. Causing loss or harm; hurtful, pernicious. Obs. rare.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 181 Yf thi wey be foule, it is dampnable. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 108 A most damnable Victory to the House of Austria.
†b. Causing damnation. Obs. rare.
a1617Hieron Serm. (1634) 185 The mercy of God, if it bee rightly applyed, there is nothing more comfortable; if it be abused..there is nothing more damnable.
4. As a strong expression of angry dislike (or merely as a strong intensive): Fit to be ‘damned’; ‘damned’, ‘confounded’. (Now regarded as vulgar or profane.)
1594Sir J. Harington in Nugæ Antiq. (1804) I. 167, I will write a damnable storie, and put it in goodlie verse, about Lord ―. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. ii. 101 O, thou hast damnable iteration. 1606― Tr. & Cr. v. i. 29 Thou damnable box of enuy thou. 1712Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 347 This is a damnable Shame. 1843Lytton Last Barons x. vi, That damnable wizard and his witch child. 1880Mrs. Forrester Roy. & V. II. 143 That blackguard has been telling his damnable lies to you.
†B. as adv. Damnably, execrably; also as a strong intensive. Obs.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. ii. 188 That did but shew thee..inconstant, And damnable ingratefull. 1668Davenant Man's the Master Wks. (1673) 352 She's damnable handsom! 1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. 152 After he went to the iron gate [of Doubting Castle]..but that lock went damnable hard, yet the key did open it. 1712–35Arbuthnot John Bull i. xv. (1755) 29 They are damnable greedy of the pence. |