Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (d[a^]md or
d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or
d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).]
[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.
He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
--Shak.
2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to
consign to perdition; to curse.
3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as
by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the
works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
--Pope.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And
without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope.
Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively,
and intensively.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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