damnation
pronunciation
How to pronounce damnation in British English:
UK [dæmˈneɪʃn]
How to pronounce damnation in American English:
US [dæmˈneʃən]
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- Noun:
- the act of damning
- the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell
Word Origin
- damnation (n.)
- c. 1300, "condemnation to Hell by God," also "fact of being condemned by judicial sentence," from Old French damnation, from Latin damnationem (nominative damnatio), noun of action from past participle stem of damnare (see damn). As an imprecation, attested from c. 1600. Damnation follows death in other men, But your damn'd Poet lives and writes agen. [Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell, 1707 or 1708]
Example
- 1. A very good damnation of big government .
- 2. They were a holy lot , with the emphasis on hellfire and damnation .
- 3. Perhaps it was more of a damnation than a redemption , after all .
- 4. Meeting " the voice and embodiment of the jazz age , its product and its beneficiary , a popular novelist , a movie scenarist , a dweller in the gilded palaces " , the reporter found instead , to his distinct hilarity , that fitzgerald was " forecasting doom , death and damnation to his generation " .
- 5. Adam , in taking the apple had condemned himself and all of mankind to damnation .