Part 2738

<blockquote><b>Damn</b> with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Damn</i> is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.</note>

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<hw>Damn</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To invoke damnation; to curse. 'While I inwardly <i>damn</i>."

<i>Goldsmith.</i>

<h1>Damnability</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam`na*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being damnable; damnableness.</def>

<i>Sir T. More.</i>

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<hw>Dam"na*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>damnabilis</ets>, fr. <ets>damnare</ets>: cf. F. <ets>damnable</ets>. See <er>Damn</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.</def>

<blockquote>A creature unprepared unmeet for dealth, And to transport him in the mind hi is, Were <b>damnable</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Odious; pernicious; detestable.</def>

<blockquote>Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy <b>damnable</b> faces. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dam"na*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>damnableness</b> of this most execrable impiety. <i>Prynne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Damnably</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam"na*bly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In a manner to incur sever<?/ censure, condemnation, or punishment.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Odiously; detestably; excessively.</def> <mark></mark>

<h1>Damnation</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dam*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>damnation</ets>, L. <ets>damnatio</ets>, fr. <ets>damnare</ets>. See <er>Damn</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Theol.)</fld> <def>Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.</def>

<blockquote>How can ye escape the <b>damnation</b> of hell? <i>Matt. xxiii. 33.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Wickedness is sin, and sin is <b>damnation</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A sin daserving of everlasting punishment.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>The deep <b>damnation</b> of his taking-off. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dannatory</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dan"na*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>damnatorius</ets>, fr. <ets>damnator</ets> a condemner.]</ety> <def>Doo<?/ing to damnation; condemnatory.</def> "<i>Damnatory</i> invectives."