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noun

Damnation n.

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

(Theol.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself. "How can ye escape the damnation of hell?" "Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation."

A sin deserving of everlasting punishment. (R.) "The deep damnation of his taking-off."

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"Damnation" Quotes from Famous Books

... York City alone there are three hundred saloon dance halls. Three hundred dens of evil where every night in the year gallons of liquid damnation are forced down the throats of unwilling drinkers! Where the bodies and souls of thousands of girls are annually destroyed, because the young are irresistibly drawn toward joy, and because we, all of us, good people, busy people, indifferent people, unseeing ...

— What eight million women want • Rheta Childe Dorr

... St. George in Ireland. He was to attend a meeting at which a great many Catholics were to be present (I forget where), got drunk and lost his hat, when he went into the room where they were assembled and said, 'Damnation to you all; I came to emancipate you, and you've stole my hat.' In the evening Moore sang, but the pianoforte was horrid, and he was not in good voice; still his singing 'va dritto al cuore,' for it produces an exceeding sadness, and brings ...

— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville

... misery followed after, in the middle came a Puseyite playing upon an organ. Reader, flee from him, for he playeth his own soul to damnation. ...

— Samuel Butler's Cambridge Pieces • Samuel Butler

... "The damnation will be settled elsewhere," said Rivers gravely. "You are pleading for him when you say he had a ...

— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell

... Germany. The Faust Book of 1587, the earliest collection of these tales, is of prevailingly theological character. It represents Faust as a sinner and reprobate, and it holds up his compact with Mephistopheles and his subsequent damnation as an example of human recklessness and as a ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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