DAMN
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Damn (dăm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (dămd or dăm"nĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (dăm"ĭng or dăm"nĭng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. Condemn, Damage.] 1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
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He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
Shak.
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2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
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3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
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You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
Pope.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
Pope.
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&hand_; Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
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Damn, v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. “While I inwardly damn.” Goldsmith.
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