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Definition of Damnation

1. Noun. The act of damning.

2. Noun. The state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell.

Definition of Damnation

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

Definition of Damnation

1. Noun. The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation. ¹

2. Noun. Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Damnation

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Medical Definition of Damnation

1. 1. The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation. 2. Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself. "How can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (Matt. Xxiii. 33) "Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation." (Shak) 3. A sin daserving of everlasting punishment. "The deep damnation of his taking-off." (Shak) Origin: F. Damnation, L. Damnatio, fr. Damnare. See Damn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Damnation

damn and blast damn it damn skippy damn straight damn the torpedoes damn well damn with faint praise damn your eyes damn your hide damnability

damnable damnableness damnablenesses damnably damnation (current term) damnations damnatory damndest damndests damned

damned if one does and damned if one doesn't damned well damneder damnedest damnedests damner damners damnest

Literary usage of Damnation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Victor Book of the Opera by Henry William Simon (1915)
"His /,<i damnation de Faust was quite coldly received by the French public. Ten years after his death, however, what a change began ! ..."

2. The Victor Book of the Opera: Stories of Seventy Grand Operas with Three by Samuel Holland Rous, Victor Talking Machine Company (1912)
"Le damnation de Faust, 3 best known work, originally written as an oratorio, but which has since been adapted r the stage, was first produced in 1846 and ..."

3. The Victrola Book of the Opera: Stories of the Operas with Illustrations by Samuel Holland Rous, Victor Talking Machine Company (1921)
"... its English equivalent is "The damnation of Faust.") FAUST soliloquizes upon the vanity of life; young folk are heard in the distance, then Hungarian ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"And since in this system eternal damnation, too, finds its only ... is not really free to sin. and that demerits cannot be the cause of eternal damnation. ..."

5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"In the 'damnation of Theron Ware' is depicted the tragedy of a weak and crude character suddenly put in touch with a higher intellectual and emotional life, ..."

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