Translation
to damn
Word origin
From French damner, from Latin damnare ('to condemn, to sentence'), from damnum ('loss, penalty'). The bare root of kondamni, kept for the religious sense of consigning a soul to hell.
- Origin
- French, from Latin
- Root
- damnare
- English cognates
- damn, condemn, damage
Examples
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The priest believed that God would damn the wicked.
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She damned the day she sold the house.
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Do not damn me for one mistake.
As in English it doubles as an oath: damne! is "damn it!". For a court verdict use ; is what fate, God or an angry narrator does.
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