1818 H. Sass Journey Rome & Naples ii. 21 Being accosted as Monsieur Goddem, which is commonly applied to us by some of the facetious French youths.]

1830 J. P. Cobbett Jrnl. Tour in Italy 8 It seems the ‘Goddems’ are having some fun.

1863 London Rev. 28 Feb. 216/2 The stupid, brutal, boozy ‘Goddams’, the stage Englishmen of the Boulevards in former days.

1865 Dublin Univ. Mag. 65 3/2 The Norman era was the true era of the ‘Goddems’.

1903 G. W. Carryl Zut 164 English, which now he spoke, said Gustave, like a veritable Goddem.

1936 Stage June 66/4 Both, also, as becomes the social prophet, were impersonal fighters. Joan could give the goddams credit for being ‘all right in their own country’.

2011 T. Desmondes Agnes Sorel xii. 104 Their king who was victorious over the occupying Goddams.

1792 H. J. Pye Comm. Poetic Aristotle ii. xvi. 352 Perhaps the most whimsical discovery in any drama, and which is also caused by a sudden exclamation, is in the original French opera of Richard Cœur de Lion, where the old Knight is discovered to be an Englishman by saying Goddam.

1823 Ld. Byron Island iii. v. 53 At length Jack Skyscrape..Exclaimed ‘G—d damn!’ Those syllables intense, Nucleus of England's native eloquence.

1838 Bentley's Misc. Dec. 608 Her partner, a tall whiskered chap, he looks werry black at Jem..and says, ‘God dam’.

1883 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 25 Sept. 4/4 Next [I] saw Cooper and Adams. Heard Adams say ‘God damn, I will give it to you,’ or something similar.

1935 C. Odets in W. H. Hildreth & W. R. Dumble 5 Contemp. Amer. Plays (1939) 223 Fight! Maybe get killed, but goddam! We'll go ahead!

1974 N.Y. Mag. 19 Aug. 26/2 Goddamn, I love this caviar.

2010 R. W. Greenacre Baghdad Express xxviii. 283 ‘Goddam!’ he exclaimed and rubbed his hand on a big abrasion that ran across the bonnet.

1828 Athenæum 20 Sept. 730/1 He should push him aside..with a not entirely courteous God damn.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. ix. 124 The ‘sacre’,..and the English ‘God-dam’, were..hurled at everything Mexican.

1869 St. James's Mag. 4 226 It was the fashion in France, on the stage..to represent the Englishman as habitually saying, ‘Godam’.

1898 W. P. Drury Tadpole of Archangel 149 Before I could say ‘Goddam’..they would be fired.

1965 O. Nash Let. in L. Nash Smith Loving Lett. from Ogden Nash (1990) 311 Fine trees that evoked many a fervent goddam from thwarted golfers.

2010 Independent 29 Jan. 6/4 Complete with a full repertoire of verbal tics like ‘goddam’ and ‘or something’.

1861 Let. 14 Feb. in H. Holzer Dear Mr. Lincoln (1993) 341 You are nothing but a goddam Black nigger.

1881 Testimony Contested Election Horatio Bisbee v. Jesse J. Finley (47th U.S. Congress 1st Sess. House of Representatives Misc. Doc. No. 11) 909 I spoke to the Democratic inspectors, and they said, ‘Hush your mouth, you Goddamn black son-of-a-bitch, or I'll put you in jail, or have it done.’

1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers (1922) i. 10 Yer right not to go with any of the girls in this goddam town.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 82 My mother was..cut out to play a superior rôle In the god-damn bourgeoisie.

1951 J. Jones From Here to Eternity xliii. 661 Probably, after I bust out, they'll..start making a goddam hero out of me for escaping.

1970 W. C. Woods Killing Zone (1971) ii. 23 Now you men knock off the goddam chatter in there and listen up.

2005 N. Johnson Big Dead Place ii. 34 A clamor to shut the goddamn door for chrissake.

1930 K. Attiwill Horizon vii. 170 Helmsman, let the wheel be, let it steer its goddam self.

1940 J. Mitchell in New Yorker 13 Apr. 23/1 I'm under no obligoddamnation to stand here all night.

1965 J. L. Herlihy Midnight Cowboy iv. 42 One young soldier, who claimed he was from Cinci-goddam-nati, had this remarkable system of fitting cusswords into unexpected corners of his talk.

1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways iii. iii. 95 ‘Where are you from?’ ‘Right here,’ she said. ‘Selma, everlovin' Alagoddamnbama.’

2001 C. Benard Turning on Girls 67 Because, praise the Lord, the revo-goddamn-lution had not succeeded in turning all females into frigid..shrews.

1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers iii. 154 Don't walk so goddam fast.

1936 C. Odets Paradise Lost in Six Plays (1939) 223 Don't be so goddam ritzy, Mr. Gordon.

1945 K. Tynan Let. 15 Dec. (1994) ii. 101 I swear irrevocably that under any circumstances whatever I will goddamn well marry you before I am 25.

1961 J. Heller Catch-22 xxxviii. 393 You're too goddam yellow to fly any more missions.

1991 R. Silverberg Thebes of Hundred Gates 83 Don't you two stupid monkeys realize that I'm here to goddam rescue you?

2002 M. Holroyd Wks. on Paper 177 The trouble was he had been ‘too god-damn reasonable’,..turned the other cheek.

1925 W. H. McDougall in Amer. Mercury Jan. 22/2 He was the first man I ever heard who split a word to insert an oath. He did it often. His favorite was ‘indegoddampendent’.

1976 J. G. Davis Leviathan v. 53 Craig exploded. ‘Ain't that fantastic! Oh, Jeez, isn't that fangoddamtastic!’

1993 Independent (Nexis) 25 Nov. (Arts section) 27 It's my fourth album. It's time I did whatever I want. Abso-goddam-lutely!

2002 S. Brantley Zero Dark Thirty ii. 12 ‘Do you undergahdamstand me?’ ‘Yes, Sir!’ Absofuckinglutely.

2005 J. Dunning Sign of Bk. 261 But that's nothing—what happens next is just ungoddamn real.