different between damn vs dampne
damn
English
Etymology
Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnare (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæm/
- Rhymes: -æm
- Homophone: dam
Verb
damn (third-person singular simple present damns, present participle damning, simple past and past participle damned)
- (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.
- To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
- To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
- To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
- November 8, 1708, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
- You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.
- November 8, 1708, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
- (profane) To curse; put a curse upon.
- (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
- c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
- c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
Conjugation
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
damn (not comparable)
- (mildly vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
Synonyms
- see also Thesaurus:damned
Translations
Adverb
damn (not comparable)
- (mildly vulgar) Very; extremely.
Translations
Interjection
damn
- (mildly vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or suprise, etc. See also dammit.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:dammit
Derived terms
- dang (euphemistic)
- darn (euphemistic)
- dayum (slang, emphatic form)
- dizamn (slang, emphatic form)
Translations
Noun
damn (plural damns)
- The use of "damn" as a curse.
- (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.
- (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
Translations
Anagrams
- MDNA, NDMA, NMDA, mDNA, mand, nam'd
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dampne
English
Verb
dampne (third-person singular simple present dampnes, present participle dampning, simple past and past participle dampned)
- Obsolete form of damn.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Geoffrey Chaucer to this entry?)
- 1547, Anne Askew, The lattre examinacyon of Anne Askewe in 1996, Elaine V. Beilin, The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, page 86:
- But lete them be ware least they dampne not their owne wretched sowles.
- a. 1542, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Certayne Psalmes in 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets: from Chaucer to Cowper, volume 2, page 395:
- But when he wayeth the fault, and recompence, / He dampneth this hys dede and fyndeth playne / Atwene them two no whytt equiualence: […]
- a. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, Certayne Psalmes in 1836, Richard Challoner, Modern British Martyrology, Keating, Brown & Co., page 58:
- For hereby shall be a great occasion to satisfie the Princess Dowager and the Lady Mary, which doe thinke that they sholde dampne thair sowles if thay sholde abandon and relinquish thair astats.
Anagrams
- dampen, madnep
Middle English
Verb
dampne
- Alternative form of dampnen
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