Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of damning or the condition of being damned.
- n. Condemnation to everlasting punishment; doom.
- n. Everlasting punishment.
- n. Failure or ruination incurred by adverse criticism.
- interj. Used to express anger or annoyance. See Regional Note at tarnation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Condemnation; adverse judgment; judicial sentence; doom.
- n. [This is the sense in which the word is used in the authorized version of the New Testament: in the revised version, in some passages condemnation (Mat. xxiii. 14; Mark xii. 40), in others judgment (Mat. xxiii. 33; John v. 29; 1 Cor. xi. 29), is substituted for it.]
- n. Specifically In theology, condemnation to punishment in the future state; sentence to eternal punishment.
- n. Something meriting eternal punishment.
- n. The act of censuring or condemning by open disapproval, as by hissing or other expression of disapprobation.
- n. Used as a profane expletive.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
- n. Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
- n. (Theol.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
- n. rare A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell
- n. the act of damning
Examples
“O.J. has what I call the damnation of an acquittal," Bailey said.”
“The rejection of the idea of God sitting on a cloud deciding who gets eternal bliss and who gets eternal damnation is a good thing.”
“Lets through every money making formula in the mix , other known as the damnation of an industry and they will all go to hell for it.”
“A man who believes in god, to whom damnation is real.”
“Like Tantalus, whose eternal damnation is largely forgotten in the modern meaning of tantalizing, there was no relief for Kitty.”
“I can claim my privilege positively – all the while remaining aware that it is relative privilege, that privilege refers many things etc, etc, – and DO, without worrying about damnation from the gods.”
“Aye, well it cannae do any harrm, a wee bit of the old subliminals I suppose (aside) damnation is it that obvious?!”
“In Edwards's view, damnation is an exercise of God's wrath, which is correct so far as it goes, but Edwards forgets that damnation is also an exercise of man's free will.”
“Misbehavior, of course, resulted in damnation -- this also preserved the social order.”
“Indeed, to suffer empathically for the damned and be unable to do anything to help them -- since their damnation is eternal and absolute -- this would be a form of torment in its own right.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘damnation’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Imbible Code ✞
Christian word branding; common English word-associatives connected to Bible terminology or scripture.
I also have a general Bible-word list.god, father, son, trinity, sacrament, knowledge, serpent, flood, evil, good, spirit, revelation and 118 more...
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The Pogues
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thricedotted's Words
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smock, smock, smock!
things that are just fun to say
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Theological Words
a priori, adiaphora, advent, agnosticism, amillennialism, anabaptists, postmillennialism, angel, animism, annihilationism, anthropic principle, anthropomorphic and 96 more...
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not the sum of their parts
words formed as the combination of two or more other words, but which have a meaning unrelated to either of the constituent words
earwig, ladyfinger, pantywaist, dovetail, eavesdropper, blackmail, greenhorn, mango, carpet, penny farthing, farthingale, damage and 118 more...
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Tunie: Straight to Hell
By Great Big Sea, new CD is Fortune's Favor. I'm trying to restrain myself from doing all their new songs as Tunies.
Love me now while we're alive
It's the best thing we can do <...oh yeah, with a smile acro..., damnation, dive right in, st peter's gate, slams, mighty lord, deathbed confession, final prayer, expectation, fire and brimstone, a deal is a deal and 36 more...
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elgiad007 Sounds great when uttered by Montgomery Burns. Nov 14, 2008