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DAMNATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does damnation mean? 

DAMNATION (noun)
  The noun DAMNATION has 2 senses:

1. the act of damningplay

2. the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hellplay

  Familiarity information: DAMNATION used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DAMNATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of damning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("damnation" is a kind of...):

denouncement; denunciation (a public act of denouncing)

Derivation:

damn (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

damnation; eternal damnation

Hypernyms ("damnation" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "damnation"):

fire and brimstone ((Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners)

Derivation:

damn (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)


 Context examples 


“There’s a damnation spill coming for somebody.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also, in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness—faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Yes, Sir Charles, what d’you think of them? Ain’t they damnation smart?” cried the little woman.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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