单词 | damning |
释义 | damningn. 1. The action of damn v.; condemnation; damnation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [noun] tinsela1300 damnationc1340 perditiona1382 damningc1400 damnement1480 reprobationa1513 accursedness1549 condemnation1557 preterition1628 non-election1629 Tartarization1823 c1400 Rom. Rose 6645 He etith his owne dampnyng. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 61 Vndur syn, bondage, nor damping. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 17 To tak þe sentence of daming. 1707 Wycherley in Pope's Lett. (1735) I. 32 'Tis my infallible Pope has, or would redeem me from a poetical Damning. 2. Profane swearing: cf. damn v. 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > use of profane language cursingc1050 swearing1340 damning1679 foul-mouthing1821 coprolalia1886 effing1963 1679 A. Roberts tr. D. Vairasse d'Allais Hist. Sevarites II. 16 Take heed of swearing, cursing, or damning. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 234 I heard a great deal of Swearing and Damming. 1914 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion (1916) ii. 131 I dont mind your damning and blasting..but there is a certain word I must ask you not to use. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury > a company of jurymen damning1486 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fviv A Dampnyng of Iurrouris. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2019). damningadj. 1. Theology. a. That causes or leads to damnation or eternal punishment; incurring spiritual retribution. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [adjective] > causing damning1598 dooming1607 damnablea1617 damnatory1738 1595 R. Southwell St. Peters Complaint (new ed.) 11 O that I rather had congeal'd to yse: Then bought thy warm'th at such a damning price. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. D2 To take a damning periur'd oath. 1668 J. Flavell Saint Indeed 148 The damning sin of the self flattering hypocrite. 1741 J. Wesley Dial. between Predestinarian & his Friend 7 As we are saved by Faith alone, so Unbelief is the only damning Sin. 1818 La Belle Assemblée 18 Suppl. 334/2 The damning crime of murdering his son. 1902 Daily Mail 18 June 7/2 She would have been unable to rest until she had removed that damning sin from her soul. 2002 Romance Philol. 56 11 Her thoughts of suicide emphasize the gravity of fault in her eyes, but God intervenes to prevent her from committing this damning sin. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [adjective] > affected by unsalveda1240 damned1393 reprobate?a1425 prescit?a1450 losta1533 reprobated1541 condemned1543 unredeemed1548 devoted1611 unsaved1648 non-elect1650 presciteda1660 damning1662 unelected1836 1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 107 [They] are so cruel to their dying damning souls, that they turn Christ their Physician out of doors. a1668 J. Alleine Alarme to Unconverted Sinners (1672) iii. 70 A dying, yea a damning, soul. 2. Given to swearing, esp. using the word ‘damn’. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > given to swearing or profanity ill-tongueda1300 foul-moutheda1470 foul-tongued1549 foul-spoken1574 rough-mouthed1646 foulmouth1661 damning1667 swearing1796 expletive1841 hard-mouthed1864 potty-mouthed1987 1660 Door of Hope 8 His precious blood was shed to fall before Papists, and Cavaliers, and prophane, drunken, damning, swearing, Idolatrous, Adulterous, wicked and ungodly men. 1704 Observator 22 Mar. That Damning Swearing Fellow don't Buy Hogs as he us'd to do. 1746 J. Willison Popery another Gospel vi. 64 Cursing, damning and swearing Protestants, will no more escape Wrath than blasphemous idolatrous Papists. a1887 A. B. Taylor Occas. Thoughts (1887) 182 I'll try to love, and try to bless, My damning, cursing foe. 1908 Henry (Illinois) Republican 7 May It is worse to marry a cussing, damning, whisky-soaked man that to live and die an old maid. 1987 H. F. Sugden & L. Sugden What does Bible say About...? xviii. 197 I expect to meet some cursing, damning old man. 3. a. That condemns or criticizes something as bad or a failure; censorious, condemnatory. ΚΠ 1677 N. Lee Rival Queens Epil. sig. I5v Ne're a damning Critick dares to flout 'em. 1776 H. Cowley Runaway Prol. sig. B3 Told her of squeaking cat-calls, hisses, groans, Offs, offs, and ruthless Critics' damning groans. 1829 Manch. Guardian 17 Oct. They assume that they know every thing, and from the absolute decision of their damning verdict there is no appeal. 1903 Athenæum 26 Sept. 413/1 One cannot forget Hazlitt's damning indictment in ‘The Spirit of the Age’. 1993 J. Bornstein Police Brutality ii. 16 The report contained a damning critique of the LAPD. 2015 US Black Engineer & Information Technol. 39 18 The Central Intelligence Agency issued a damning report about the state of diversity in the nation's best known, and perhaps most crucial, spy agency. b. That leads to condemnation or ruin; incurring incrimination; denoting guilt. Cf. damn v. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > attended by or causing affliction eileOE soreOE unselec1050 evilc1175 derfa1225 stourc1275 feeble1297 illa1325 fella1400 unhappya1400 unwealful1412 importunea1425 noisomea1450 shrewd1482 importunable?c1485 importunate1490 funestal1538 nippingc1550 troublesome1552 pinching1563 grievesome1568 afflicting1573 afflictive1576 pressing1591 lacerating1609 funest1636 funestous1641 gravaminous1659 unkind1682 plightful1721 damning1798 acanthocladous1858 damnatory1858 fraught1966 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adjective] > leading to condemnation damning1798 1798 E. Cooke Let. 21 May in Ld. Auckland Jrnl. & Corr. (1862) III. 421 We took up the two Shears to-day, with damning papers; found many pikes and variety of revolutionary papers. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. vi. i. 9 Without which..the statesman, the orator, the author, all alike feel the damning consciousness of being charlatans. 1973 Listener 20 Dec. 842/1 It is the hope..that enough damning evidence would be found to force the ouster of the President overnight—to make him resign. 2012 Sunday Times 29 July 30/3 Maharaj had an alibi—and a plausible explanation for those damning fingerprints. Derivatives ˈdamningly adv. so as to damn or condemn; to a damning degree. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [adverb] > causing damningly1709 1648 Good News from New Eng. 24 Error's brought in to blind men damningly. 1709 H. Chandler Effort against Biggotry (ed. 2) 32 No Party of Protestants is so in the Right..that the other be damningly wrong. 1832 Satirist 12 Aug. 260/4 Is there in the whole catalogue of murder a case so damningly marked by a cowardly, cold-blooded, butchering spirit, as that of which Cooke stands convicted? 1959 Freedom: Anarchist Weekly 31 Jan. 4/2 These instructions can be quoted damningly in Court Martial proceedings. 2017 Sci. Fiction Stud. 44 610 Canavan ultimately and damningly compares the Oankali breeding program to the United Nation's definition [sic] of genocide. ˈdamningness n. rare the quality or state of being damning. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun] > of sins damningness1645 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [noun] > cause of damnation1377 damningness1645 1645 H. Hammond Pract. Catech. i. iii. 85 For the emptinesse and damningnesse of them [sc. sins]. 1979 Menckeniana 71 2/1 Writers and academics..are distinguished from other people by..the damningness with which they frequently hold other people's opinions against them. 2018 MSNBC: Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 21 Aug. The precision, the clarity of it, the damningness of it, those things you couldn't quite anticipate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < n.c1400adj.1595 |
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