damnationn.int.adv.adj.

Brit.

/damˈneɪʃn/, U.S.

/dæmˈneɪʃən/

Forms: Middle English damnacion, Middle English dampnacione, Middle English dampnacionne, Middle English dampnacioun, Middle English dampnacioune, Middle English dampnaciun, Middle English dampnaciune, Middle English dampnacon, Middle English dampnacoun, Middle English dampnacyone, Middle English dampnacyoun, Middle English dampnacyun, Middle English dannacioun, Middle English–1500s damnacioun, Middle English–1500s damnacyon, Middle English–1500s dampnacion, Middle English–1500s dampnacyon, Middle English–1600s dampnation, 1500s damnatyon, 1500s dampnaconn, 1500s– damnation; also Scottish pre-1700 damnacioun, pre-1700 damnatioun, pre-1700 dampnacione, pre-1700 dampnacioun, pre-1700 dampnacioune, pre-1700 dampnatioun.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French damnation; Latin damnātiōn-, damnātiō.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French dampnation, damnation (French damnation ) condemnation to eternal punishment (c1150), judicial conviction (late 13th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin damnātiōn-, damnātiō (in post-classical Latin also dampnation-, dampnatio) condemnation in a court of law, adverse judgement (of something), (in legal context) binding or obligation of an heir to do something under the terms of a will, in post-classical Latin also eternal punishment (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), damage, hurt (from 8th cent. in British sources), wrong, detriment (9th cent.) < damnāt- , past participial stem of damnāre damn v. + -iō -ion suffix¹.In sense A. 4 translating classical Latin damnātiō, with reference to the condition of being damnās (indeclinable adjective) obliged, bound to make a gift or contribution.

A. n.

a. Theology. Condemnation to eternal punishment after death; the fact of being damned, or doomed to hell.Opposed to salvation.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [noun]

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c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) l. 787 Tweye manere shame men fint in boke..Þat on goþ to dampnacioun; Þat oþer, to sauuacioun.

a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 773 Þat his sowle was sauyed from dampnacyone.

1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 241/2 Hee woulde haue hell or euerlasting dampnation to hys rewarde.

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2483 Whose concupiscence, Like thine, deservde black helles damnation?

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 215 That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation .

1721 E. Young Revenge v. ii So Lucifer broke into Paradise, And soon damnation follow'd.

1869 W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth (1875) 243 You are, O sinner, on the edge of eternal damnation.

1916 tr. L. Labauche God & Man II. iii. ii. 174 Predestination to sin and damnation seems to be somewhat a consequence of the non-predestination to good and heaven.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Sept. a13/4 Regarding his preaching, Mr. Williams said: ‘I don't Bible-thump or preach damnation. I preach hope and then I challenge the people to change.’

b. Theology. The cause of condemnation to eternal punishment after death; sin incurring or deserving damnation. Also occasionally: an instance of this. Now rare.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [noun] > cause of

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c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 21 So his þe mete dampnacion To hem þat senne likeþ To holde.

c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 200 (MED) Sum-tyme we suffre of oure neghtburs persecucions and harmes, dampnacyons and stryfes.

1587 I. Anwick Medit. Gods Monarchie v. 28 Hee doth not only tempt and entice the wicked sorte..to theyr damnation: but also cruelly vex and torment the very elect of God, tempting and entising them to the comitting of most horrible sinnes, as Idolatry, Blasphemie, Murther, Adultry, and all other filthy vices.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 49 Twere damnation to thinke so base a thought.

1738 J. Swift Wks. VI. 194 Tell me..What Name for a Maid, was the first Man's Damnation?

1805 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. July 319 If you do go to this confession, without the mind being pure, and you confess all your sins before God and your confessor, you had better stay away, for this impurity also is damnation!

1874 Boston Investigator 16 Dec. 3/1 For one person who drops from the church into the theatre, nine will come up to the theatre from streets that are mined with pit-falls and beset with damnations.

2009 P. D. Miller Ten Commandments 413 This world God has given is a desirable place, and that is our glory and our damnation.

c. In extended use: the cause of a person's, place's, group's, etc., downfall; an action or practice incurring mental torment, unhappiness, etc.

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1832 Age 29 July 247/2 Let not the Court be so accessory to its own damnation.

1857 Liberator (Boston) 9 Oct. 163/4 The South see that slavery must be their damnation, without the Union; but the North also see, that the Union must ever be a curse to them, with slavery in it.

1893 H. H. Gardener Facts & Fictions of Life 195 Men demand privileges, rights,..which they claim as good for and necessary to them and their welfare, while they insist that all these are not to be allowed to woman—would be her damnation.

1989 D. Morgan Voy. of Amer. Promise ii. 17 Whiskey drinking's a man's duty, getting drunk is his damnation.

2013 J. F. Lewis Color of His Blood 102 It was his damnation, this love for Lady Anne. And he felt trapped by these emotions.

a. The action or fact of condemning, esp. by judicial sentence; condemnation to (also of) a sentence or punishment. Now rare.

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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > conviction or judicial condemnation > [noun]

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xxiii. 40 Nethir thou dredist God, that thou art in the same dampnacioun [L. damnatione]?

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15472 Þis traitur..þat þus his suete lauerd soght vn-to dampnacion.

a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1278/1 Her ofspring..had not..fallen in dampnacion of death.

1639 W. Laud Relation Conf. Lawd & Fisher 266 In a Councell..Pope Alexander the third Condemned Peter Lombard of Heresie: And he lay under that Damnation for thirty and sixe yeares.

1881 Proc. Literary & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 35 138 Damnation simply expresses the fact of a person being sentenced, without any reference to the amount of penalty.

2011 J. Hughes in K. Cordell & S. Wolff Routledge Handbk. Ethnic Conflict xi. 136 How different the Jefferson Memorial would look if it inscribed his damnation of the native Americans: ‘to pursue them to extermination’.

b. Condemnation by publicly expressed disapproval. Frequently with reference to an author, literary work, etc.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > censure or condemnation > public

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1701 in Lett. Wit, Politicks, & Morality vi. iv. 221 If they can be inform'd of any remarkable Fault in them, they never fail to whisper it about, to secure the Damnation of the Play, before its Representation.

1782 Leeds Intelligencer 7 May As to unanimity, unanimity led to political damnation.

1806 H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow II. 147 The fatal cough, well known to authors as the sure forerunner of dramatic damnation.

1921 Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 6/1 Another writer who is..slipping down the same broad and easy way to literary damnation is Mrs. Henry Dudeney.

2021 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 July I have been subjected to social media damnation.

a. Used in imprecations and expressions of irritation or impatience. Cf. perdition n. 2d.

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1613 E. Cary Trag. Mariam v. sig. H3^v Damnation take him, for it was the slaue That said she ment with poisons deadly force To end my life that she the Crowne might haue.

1759 W. Shirley Observ. on Pamphlet lately Published 29 The Duke struck his blunderbuss against the stones, uttering in a passion, these infernal words, Damnation seize thee! when I want thee, thou art of no use to me.

1845 C. Chintz Gem of Mines iii. 22 Upon perceiving who the intruders were, he grew suddenly pale, and exclaimed involuntarily: ‘Shafter, Pitts, what in damnation brings you here?’

1877 R. Bruce Voice from Austral. Bush 204 The same old luck! Damnation seize the dice! The devil of his children takes good care!

1993 I. Okpewho Tides 56 I couldn't bring myself to imagine what in damnation I'd done to merit such a savage fate.

b. An utterance of ‘damnation’; an imprecation, an oath.

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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > damn

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1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 137 [He] invokes Hell and Damnation at the Breaking of a Glass.

1820 Examiner 12 Mar. 1/1 He rages only behind the door. He keeps his ‘Damnations!’ for his particular friends.

1922 Close-Up 20 Feb. 12/1 His choice of language is replete with ‘Damns’ and ‘Damnations’ and ‘Hell’ and ‘Rats’.

1974 D. Kowet Vida Blue i. 12 She greeted the children, and sat down—then straight up, with a damnation in her mouth and a bottom full of tacks.

2003 Weekly Worker 9 Jan. 7/5 To even utter the phrase is to bring down a torrent of invective, curses and damnations.

4. Roman Law. A form of declaring a legacy in which the heir is obliged by the testator to pay money or deliver property to a legatee. Chiefly in legacy by damnation. rare (chiefly in translations or discussions of the Roman jurist Gaius).

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1870 J. T. Abdy & B. Walker tr. Gaius Commentaries ii. 135 The most advantageous form is a legacy by damnation [L. damnationem]: by which kind even the property of another can be bequeathed.

1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 528 A legacy by damnation..was one in which the testator imposed an obligation on his heir to give to the legatee the thing bequeathed,..and which afforded the latter a personal claim against the heir, but no real right in the object of bequest.

2016 A. Jördens in P. J. Du Plessis et al. Oxf. Handbk. Rom. Law & Society vii. xlii. 544 A legacy by damnation..is merely obligatory, and could not of course give such a position.

B. int.

Expressing anger, despair, frustration, etc.Recorded earliest in death and damnation at death n. 10.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 401 Death and damnation—oh.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia IV. x. vi. 69 He turned pale, gnashed his Teeth, and cried out, ‘Damnation! this is too much to bear.’

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xii. 196 ‘Damnation,’ cried the master, who was mad with rage.

1927 M. Brand Fastest Draw (1987) ix. 73 ‘Damnation, man!’ roared Gorman suddenly.

2005 Sunday Times 13 Feb. (Culture section) 14/1 He suddenly stopped and banged his umbrella against a tree, smashing both shaft and fabric. ‘Damnation!’ he cried.

C. adv.

As an intensifier modifying an adjective: absolutely, completely, utterly. Frequently implying some element of dislike, frustration, etc., on the part of the speaker.

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the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation

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1756 Connoisseur No. 125. 161 The wit with metaphors makes bold, And tell's you he's damnation cold: Perhaps, that metaphor forgot, The self-same wit's damnation hot.

1896 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Jan. 8/1 [Quoting ‘M. Twain’] The books which gave me the hardest time to write were Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper... Couldn't get on at all; rooted round a long time—a damnation long time, for incidents, for ideas.

1994 T. Caxton Murder in Quiet Place xvii. 259 Mr Spence was nearly knocked down and killed..by a damnation big white car going past like a bloody skyrocket.

2010 @LoversReign_ 30 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 11 Nov. 2021) On the way to Northlake and it's damnation hot out here.

D. adj.

As a strong expression of angry dislike: awful, terrible. Formerly also †as an intensifier: absolute, downright, utter (obsolete).

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1820 Caledonian Mercury 24 Apr. What a damnation shame it was that so much money should have been expended on his late Majesty's funeral.

1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet III. v. 111 He would have the lives of the damned Frenchman and his damnation horse.

1891 O. H. G. Leigh Dollarocracy ix. 113 I say we working men are being fooled out of our money and our rights, and I say it's a damnation shame!

1982 J. G. Jeffreys Capt. Bolton's Corpse v. 89 In this damnation place you could not tell whether anything was far or near.

2014 @ropagrim 3 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 11 Nov. 2021) This Damnation cold has me coughing like I bypass the cigs and just shove the tar straight into my lungs and feed CO to my alveoli.

Phrases

to drink damnation: to make a toast to a person's unhappiness, failure, or spiritual perdition. With to. Now rare.

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1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 35 They drunk Damnation to Dr. Sacheverell.

1834 Vermont Chron. 21 Mar. 1/3 They drank damnation to all temperance men.

1888 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 Mar. 4/4 Stephen Blunt... Charged of drinking damnation to General Washington and all his army.

1957 F. Clune Fortune Hunters 28 Instead of buying a drink at the side-door of the closed bar, we raided our own emergency desert-crossing supplies, and drank damnation to Tom Playford's wowser laws.

Derivatives

damˈnationly adv. as an intensifier modifying an adjective: absolutely, completely, utterly. Frequently implying some element of dislike, frustration, etc., on the part of the speaker; = sense C.Apparently unattested in the 19th cent.

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the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adverb] > as everyday imprecation

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1748 E. Moore Foundling ii. vi. 25 Isn't she a little freckled, says my Lord?—Damnationly padded, says Jack—And painted like a Dutch Doll, by Jupiter, says Billy.

1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 149 I knew him when he and I were students at Oxford, where we both studied damnationly hard.

1906 Watson's Mag. Oct. 557/1 ‘He's most—most—most damnationally at home!’ spluttered wrathful Mr. Matthews.

1989 J. R. Maxim Lesko's Ghost xxv. 377 Not so bad, she thought. But damnationally unhygienic.

2011 @ChrisSWAP 29 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Nov. 2021) Dear Twitter, Why the F is all the mobile pictures so damnationly small!? It really pisses me off to click on a picture and its MEGA-SMALL.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).

单词	damnation
释义	damnationn.int.adv.adj. Brit. /damˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /dæmˈneɪʃən/ Forms: Middle English damnacion, Middle English dampnacione, Middle English dampnacionne, Middle English dampnacioun, Middle English dampnacioune, Middle English dampnaciun, Middle English dampnaciune, Middle English dampnacon, Middle English dampnacoun, Middle English dampnacyone, Middle English dampnacyoun, Middle English dampnacyun, Middle English dannacioun, Middle English–1500s damnacioun, Middle English–1500s damnacyon, Middle English–1500s dampnacion, Middle English–1500s dampnacyon, Middle English–1600s dampnation, 1500s damnatyon, 1500s dampnaconn, 1500s– damnation; also Scottish pre-1700 damnacioun, pre-1700 damnatioun, pre-1700 dampnacione, pre-1700 dampnacioun, pre-1700 dampnacioune, pre-1700 dampnatioun. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French damnation; Latin damnātiōn-, damnātiō. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French dampnation, damnation (French damnation ) condemnation to eternal punishment (c1150), judicial conviction (late 13th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin damnātiōn-, damnātiō (in post-classical Latin also dampnation-, dampnatio) condemnation in a court of law, adverse judgement (of something), (in legal context) binding or obligation of an heir to do something under the terms of a will, in post-classical Latin also eternal punishment (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), damage, hurt (from 8th cent. in British sources), wrong, detriment (9th cent.) < damnāt- , past participial stem of damnāre damn v. + -iō -ion suffix¹.In sense A. 4 translating classical Latin damnātiō, with reference to the condition of being damnās (indeclinable adjective) obliged, bound to make a gift or contribution. A. n. 1. a. Theology. Condemnation to eternal punishment after death; the fact of being damned, or doomed to hell.Opposed to salvation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [noun] tinsela1300 damnationc1340 perditiona1382 damningc1400 damnement1480 reprobationa1513 accursedness1549 condemnation1557 preterition1628 non-election1629 Tartarization1823 c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) l. 787 Tweye manere shame men fint in boke..Þat on goþ to dampnacioun; Þat oþer, to sauuacioun. a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 773 Þat his sowle was sauyed from dampnacyone. 1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 241/2 Hee woulde haue hell or euerlasting dampnation to hys rewarde. c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2483 Whose concupiscence, Like thine, deservde black helles damnation? 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 215 That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation . View more context for this quotation 1721 E. Young Revenge v. ii So Lucifer broke into Paradise, And soon damnation follow'd. 1869 W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth (1875) 243 You are, O sinner, on the edge of eternal damnation. 1916 tr. L. Labauche God & Man II. iii. ii. 174 Predestination to sin and damnation seems to be somewhat a consequence of the non-predestination to good and heaven. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Sept. a13/4 Regarding his preaching, Mr. Williams said: ‘I don't Bible-thump or preach damnation. I preach hope and then I challenge the people to change.’ b. Theology. The cause of condemnation to eternal punishment after death; sin incurring or deserving damnation. Also occasionally: an instance of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [noun] > cause of damnation1377 damningness1645 c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 21 So his þe mete dampnacion To hem þat senne likeþ To holde. c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 200 (MED) Sum-tyme we suffre of oure neghtburs persecucions and harmes, dampnacyons and stryfes. 1587 I. Anwick Medit. Gods Monarchie v. 28 Hee doth not only tempt and entice the wicked sorte..to theyr damnation: but also cruelly vex and torment the very elect of God, tempting and entising them to the comitting of most horrible sinnes, as Idolatry, Blasphemie, Murther, Adultry, and all other filthy vices. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 49 Twere damnation to thinke so base a thought. View more context for this quotation 1738 J. Swift Wks. VI. 194 Tell me..What Name for a Maid, was the first Man's Damnation? 1805 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. July 319 If you do go to this confession, without the mind being pure, and you confess all your sins before God and your confessor, you had better stay away, for this impurity also is damnation! 1874 Boston Investigator 16 Dec. 3/1 For one person who drops from the church into the theatre, nine will come up to the theatre from streets that are mined with pit-falls and beset with damnations. 2009 P. D. Miller Ten Commandments 413 This world God has given is a desirable place, and that is our glory and our damnation. c. In extended use: the cause of a person's, place's, group's, etc., downfall; an action or practice incurring mental torment, unhappiness, etc. ΚΠ 1832 Age 29 July 247/2 Let not the Court be so accessory to its own damnation. 1857 Liberator (Boston) 9 Oct. 163/4 The South see that slavery must be their damnation, without the Union; but the North also see, that the Union must ever be a curse to them, with slavery in it. 1893 H. H. Gardener Facts & Fictions of Life 195 Men demand privileges, rights,..which they claim as good for and necessary to them and their welfare, while they insist that all these are not to be allowed to woman—would be her damnation. 1989 D. Morgan Voy. of Amer. Promise ii. 17 Whiskey drinking's a man's duty, getting drunk is his damnation. 2013 J. F. Lewis Color of His Blood 102 It was his damnation, this love for Lady Anne. And he felt trapped by these emotions. 2. a. The action or fact of condemning, esp. by judicial sentence; condemnation to (also of) a sentence or punishment. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > conviction or judicial condemnation > [noun] condemnationc1384 damnationc1384 attainting1395 conviction1491 convict1567 eviction?1575 convincement1612 convincing1615 forjudging1651 convictment1887 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xxiii. 40 Nethir thou dredist God, that thou art in the same dampnacioun [L. damnatione]? a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15472 Þis traitur..þat þus his suete lauerd soght vn-to dampnacion. a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1278/1 Her ofspring..had not..fallen in dampnacion of death. 1639 W. Laud Relation Conf. Lawd & Fisher 266 In a Councell..Pope Alexander the third Condemned Peter Lombard of Heresie: And he lay under that Damnation for thirty and sixe yeares. 1881 Proc. Literary & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 35 138 Damnation simply expresses the fact of a person being sentenced, without any reference to the amount of penalty. 2011 J. Hughes in K. Cordell & S. Wolff Routledge Handbk. Ethnic Conflict xi. 136 How different the Jefferson Memorial would look if it inscribed his damnation of the native Americans: ‘to pursue them to extermination’. b. Condemnation by publicly expressed disapproval. Frequently with reference to an author, literary work, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > censure or condemnation > public damnation1742 1701 in Lett. Wit, Politicks, & Morality vi. iv. 221 If they can be inform'd of any remarkable Fault in them, they never fail to whisper it about, to secure the Damnation of the Play, before its Representation. 1782 Leeds Intelligencer 7 May As to unanimity, unanimity led to political damnation. 1806 H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow II. 147 The fatal cough, well known to authors as the sure forerunner of dramatic damnation. 1921 Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 6/1 Another writer who is..slipping down the same broad and easy way to literary damnation is Mrs. Henry Dudeney. 2021 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 July I have been subjected to social media damnation. 3. a. Used in imprecations and expressions of irritation or impatience. Cf. perdition n. 2d. ΚΠ 1613 E. Cary Trag. Mariam v. sig. H3^v Damnation take him, for it was the slaue That said she ment with poisons deadly force To end my life that she the Crowne might haue. 1759 W. Shirley Observ. on Pamphlet lately Published 29 The Duke struck his blunderbuss against the stones, uttering in a passion, these infernal words, Damnation seize thee! when I want thee, thou art of no use to me. 1845 C. Chintz Gem of Mines iii. 22 Upon perceiving who the intruders were, he grew suddenly pale, and exclaimed involuntarily: ‘Shafter, Pitts, what in damnation brings you here?’ 1877 R. Bruce Voice from Austral. Bush 204 The same old luck! Damnation seize the dice! The devil of his children takes good care! 1993 I. Okpewho Tides 56 I couldn't bring myself to imagine what in damnation I'd done to merit such a savage fate. b. An utterance of ‘damnation’; an imprecation, an oath. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > damn damn1589 damnationa1616 damme1645 darn1781 darned1808 by darn1840 doggone1857 dammit1894 hot damn1929 bollocks1940 dammit1956 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 137 [He] invokes Hell and Damnation at the Breaking of a Glass. 1820 Examiner 12 Mar. 1/1 He rages only behind the door. He keeps his ‘Damnations!’ for his particular friends. 1922 Close-Up 20 Feb. 12/1 His choice of language is replete with ‘Damns’ and ‘Damnations’ and ‘Hell’ and ‘Rats’. 1974 D. Kowet Vida Blue i. 12 She greeted the children, and sat down—then straight up, with a damnation in her mouth and a bottom full of tacks. 2003 Weekly Worker 9 Jan. 7/5 To even utter the phrase is to bring down a torrent of invective, curses and damnations. 4. Roman Law. A form of declaring a legacy in which the heir is obliged by the testator to pay money or deliver property to a legatee. Chiefly in legacy by damnation. rare (chiefly in translations or discussions of the Roman jurist Gaius). ΚΠ 1870 J. T. Abdy & B. Walker tr. Gaius Commentaries ii. 135 The most advantageous form is a legacy by damnation [L. damnationem]: by which kind even the property of another can be bequeathed. 1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 528 A legacy by damnation..was one in which the testator imposed an obligation on his heir to give to the legatee the thing bequeathed,..and which afforded the latter a personal claim against the heir, but no real right in the object of bequest. 2016 A. Jördens in P. J. Du Plessis et al. Oxf. Handbk. Rom. Law & Society vii. xlii. 544 A legacy by damnation..is merely obligatory, and could not of course give such a position. B. int. Expressing anger, despair, frustration, etc.Recorded earliest in death and damnation at death n. 10. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 401 Death and damnation—oh. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia IV. x. vi. 69 He turned pale, gnashed his Teeth, and cried out, ‘Damnation! this is too much to bear.’ 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xii. 196 ‘Damnation,’ cried the master, who was mad with rage. 1927 M. Brand Fastest Draw (1987) ix. 73 ‘Damnation, man!’ roared Gorman suddenly. 2005 Sunday Times 13 Feb. (Culture section) 14/1 He suddenly stopped and banged his umbrella against a tree, smashing both shaft and fabric. ‘Damnation!’ he cried. C. adv. As an intensifier modifying an adjective: absolutely, completely, utterly. Frequently implying some element of dislike, frustration, etc., on the part of the speaker. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation stinking?c1225 misbegetc1325 banned1340 cursefula1382 wariablea1382 cursedc1386 biccheda1400 maledighta1400 vilea1400 accursedc1400 whoresona1450 remauldit?1473 execrable1490 infamous1490 unbicheda1500 jolly1534 bloodyc1540 mangy?1548 pagan1550 damned1563 misbegotten1571 putid1580 desperate1581 excremental1591 inexecrable?1594 sacred1594 putrid1628 sad1664 blasted1682 plagued1728 damnation1757 infernal1764 damn1775 pesky1775 deuced1782 shocking1798 blessed1806 darned1815 dinged1821 anointed1823 goldarn1830 darn1835 cussed1837 blamed1840 unholy1842 verdomde1850 bleeding1858 ghastly1860 goddam1861 blankety1872 blame1876 bastard1877 God-awful1877 dashed1881 sodding1881 bally1885 ungodly1887 blazing1888 dee1889 motherfucking1890 blistering1900 plurry1900 Christly1910 blinking1914 blethering1915 blighted1915 blighting1916 soddish1922 somethinged1922 effing1929 Jesus1929 dagnab1934 bastarding1944 Christless1947 mother-loving1948 mothering1951 pussyclaat1957 mother-grabbing1959 pigging1970 1756 Connoisseur No. 125. 161 The wit with metaphors makes bold, And tell's you he's damnation cold: Perhaps, that metaphor forgot, The self-same wit's damnation hot. 1896 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Jan. 8/1 [Quoting ‘M. Twain’] The books which gave me the hardest time to write were Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper... Couldn't get on at all; rooted round a long time—a damnation long time, for incidents, for ideas. 1994 T. Caxton Murder in Quiet Place xvii. 259 Mr Spence was nearly knocked down and killed..by a damnation big white car going past like a bloody skyrocket. 2010 @LoversReign_ 30 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 11 Nov. 2021) On the way to Northlake and it's damnation hot out here. D. adj. As a strong expression of angry dislike: awful, terrible. Formerly also †as an intensifier: absolute, downright, utter (obsolete). ΚΠ 1820 Caledonian Mercury 24 Apr. What a damnation shame it was that so much money should have been expended on his late Majesty's funeral. 1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet III. v. 111 He would have the lives of the damned Frenchman and his damnation horse. 1891 O. H. G. Leigh Dollarocracy ix. 113 I say we working men are being fooled out of our money and our rights, and I say it's a damnation shame! 1982 J. G. Jeffreys Capt. Bolton's Corpse v. 89 In this damnation place you could not tell whether anything was far or near. 2014 @ropagrim 3 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 11 Nov. 2021) This Damnation cold has me coughing like I bypass the cigs and just shove the tar straight into my lungs and feed CO to my alveoli. Phrases to drink damnation: to make a toast to a person's unhappiness, failure, or spiritual perdition. With to. Now rare. ΚΠ 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 35 They drunk Damnation to Dr. Sacheverell. 1834 Vermont Chron. 21 Mar. 1/3 They drank damnation to all temperance men. 1888 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 Mar. 4/4 Stephen Blunt... Charged of drinking damnation to General Washington and all his army. 1957 F. Clune Fortune Hunters 28 Instead of buying a drink at the side-door of the closed bar, we raided our own emergency desert-crossing supplies, and drank damnation to Tom Playford's wowser laws. Derivatives damˈnationly adv. as an intensifier modifying an adjective: absolutely, completely, utterly. Frequently implying some element of dislike, frustration, etc., on the part of the speaker; = sense C.Apparently unattested in the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adverb] > as everyday imprecation wickedlya1375 terrible1490 cursedly1570 plaguilya1586 damnably1598 cursefully1606 damnedly1607 lousily1611 damnablea1616 execrably1633 excrementitiously1638 infernally1638 mangilya1640 putidly1654 infamously1695 consumedly1707 damned1757 damnationly1762 shockingly1768 damn1787 deucedly1819 peskily1833 pesky1833 beastly1853 dashedly1888 stinkingly1906 rasted1919 effing1945 1748 E. Moore Foundling ii. vi. 25 Isn't she a little freckled, says my Lord?—Damnationly padded, says Jack—And painted like a Dutch Doll, by Jupiter, says Billy. 1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 149 I knew him when he and I were students at Oxford, where we both studied damnationly hard. 1906 Watson's Mag. Oct. 557/1 ‘He's most—most—most damnationally at home!’ spluttered wrathful Mr. Matthews. 1989 J. R. Maxim Lesko's Ghost xxv. 377 Not so bad, she thought. But damnationally unhygienic. 2011 @ChrisSWAP 29 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Nov. 2021) Dear Twitter, Why the F is all the mobile pictures so damnationly small!? It really pisses me off to click on a picture and its MEGA-SMALL. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < n.int.adv.adj.c1330
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