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   Damn , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Damning .] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty.  Cf. Condemn, Damage.]
   To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
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   He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
   Shak.
   
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   (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
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   To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denunciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
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   You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
   Pope.
   
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   Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
   And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
   Pope.
   
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   ☞ Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
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   Damn, v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. “While I inwardly damn.”  
   Goldsmith.
   
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