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damnation

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for damnation.

Editorial note

This is probably a failure of the major algorithms rather than a damnation of audio compression in general.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of damnation gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

(religion) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for damnation.

noun

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

noun

(religion) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.

Example sentences

1

This is probably a failure of the major algorithms rather than a damnation of audio compression in general.

2

That's about as insightful as cursing Carl Benz to damnation because you bought a crappy car.

3

There are at least two religions for which belief in one constitutes damnation in the other.

4

There is also a new documentary out called DamNation which looks quite interesting.

5

Blessing and damnation: the stressed syllable is always encoded in the word.

6

The only way to run Windows on a Mac and dodge eternal damnation is to do it inside a VM, preferably a stateless one.

7

How did I know that underneath that terse damnation of Twitter was bubbling a stormy and long-winded sea of contempt?

8

I think there are a lot of people, making decisions, who could do with a little fear of eternal damnation.

9

I recently watched DamNation [1] and was quite surprised at the shear number of dams located in the United States.

10

Just as there is redemption for exceeding your past bad deeds with present and future good deeds, so there is damnation for doing the opposite.

11

On one hand, there's a chance of total damnation.

12

Threats (see religion and eternal damnation for all heretics).

Quote examples

1

I mean, yeah, the only way to save ourselves from damnation is to finally announce "enough of 70's!" and rewrite everything from scratch, so the idea is dear to me, but that actual implementation of the idea is… maybe "weird" is the right word.

2

First of all, the Christian theological vision of redemption incorporates a much broader view of humanity than one individual's salvation from damnation, it shares much in common with the Marxist view of the end of history in that it also puts hope on a stable everlasting peace and prosperity, where the "lion will lay down with the lamb".

3

Most speakers of English pronounce the last syllable of "lemon" much more closely to the original spelling than to cutspel's "lemn", which appears like the "mn" sound in Autumn, omniscient, or damnation.) Brevity for brevity's sake is a bad thing.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use damnation in a sentence?

This is probably a failure of the major algorithms rather than a damnation of audio compression in general.

What does damnation mean?

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

What part of speech is damnation?

damnation is commonly used as noun.