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Damn v. t. (past & past part. damned; pres. part. damning)

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."

(Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

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." "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer." Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.

Damn v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn."

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"Damn" Quotes from Famous Books

... and good. It would not please me; I had rather remain a captain, and feel my dignity, not in my title, but in the services by which it has been won. A beggarly, rascally association of stock-brokers, for aught I know, buy me a company! I don't want to be uncivil, or I would say damn 'em—Mr.—sir—Jack!" ...

— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... matter?" said SUSAN. "Are you afraid of a little water, and you a man, too? See me! I'm as wet as sop. Don't keep me waiting here, now, or I'll feel like saying "Damn" again, and that sort of thing won't do too often. I want you to come along with me up to LESTER WALLACE'S place—the 'Hut,' you know. I'm stopping with him. It's two or three hours yet before lunch-time, and we can have a ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 • Various

... "Damn the physic!" The Gadfly had reached the irritable stage of convalescence, and was inclined to give his devoted nurses a bad time. "W-what do you want to d-d-dose me with all sorts of horrors for ...

— The Gadfly • E. L. Voynich

... to the kind of education that the Earl of Chesterfield prescribed for his son. The earl was well aware of it, indeed, and marked with repugnance divers young bucks of his day with leathern breeches and unpowdered hair, who would exclaim; "Damn these finical outlandish airs, give me a manly resolute manner. They make a rout with their graces, and talk like a parcel of dancing masters, and dress like a parcel of fops; one good Englishman will beat ...

— English Travellers of the Renaissance • Clare Howard

... then, drawing himself up to his full height, with a cynical smile on his face, waving his hat and cane in the air, and at the same time shaking his head in a self-accusing way, yelled at the top of his voice, "I am sixty-five years old, and still a damn fool!" ...

— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

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