Definition
verb /dæm/
damned, past participle; damned, past tense; damning, present participle; damns, 3rd person singular present
- (in Christian belief) Be condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell
- be forever damned with Lucifer
- Be doomed to misfortune or failure
- the enterprise was damned
- Condemn, esp. by the public expression of disapproval
- intellectuals whom he damns as rigid doctrinaire idealists
- Curse (someone or something)
- she cleared her throat, damning it for its huskiness
- damn him for making this sound trivial
exclamation /dæm/
- Expressing anger, surprise, or frustration
- Damn! I completely forgot!
adjective /dæm/
- Used for emphasis, esp. to express anger or frustration
- turn that damn thing off!
- don’t be so damn silly!
Wikipedia
Damnation (from Latin damnatio) is the concept of everlasting divine punishment and/or disgrace, especially the punishment for sin as threatened by God (e.g. ). A damned being "in damnation" is said to be either in Hell, or living in a state wherein they are divorced from Heaven and/or in a state of disgrace from God's favor. Those Christians in purgatory, the "Church Suffering", are not considered damned, because their stay there is not eternal, while people who are damned to Hell will stay there eternally.
Following the religious meaning, the words damn and goddamn are a common form of religious profanity, in modern times often semantically weakened to the status of mere interjections. [...]
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