单词 | predamn |
释义 | predamnv. rare. transitive. To damn or condemn in advance. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > predestine or predetermine [verb (transitive)] > to disaster doom1603 predamn1624 precondemna1631 predoom1769 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 82 The deedes..for which the cities of Sodome and Gomorrha were predamned. 1789 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis ii., in Poems II. 113 She frowns on his toils if he speaks or indites; Pre-damns all his essays in verse and in prose, And yields him a victim to merciless foes. 1794 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday in Cabinet 14 Swear we're all predestin'd or predamn'd. 1963 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 7 56 Many students have a bad habit of ‘pre-damning’ any Russian work simply because it is Russian. 2000 USA Today (Nexis) 25 Aug. e2 I've already prejudged and predamned a lot of this material myself. Derivatives preˈdamning n. and adj. rare. ΚΠ 1925 G. Dennis Harvest in Poland x. 187 They are as fatalist; more despairingly too, since the Brethren held their doctrine of predestination, predamning, as only true for others. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 220 We were altogether unself-conscious about, even unconscious of, this out-of-hand-predamning aspect of our JackandJillery, until the figleaved world pointed its dirty fingers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1624 |
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