different between damnable vs damnably

English

Etymology

From Middle English dampnable, from Old French dampnable, from Latin damn?bilis; surface analysis damn +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæmn?bl?/

Adjective

damnable (comparative more damnable, superlative most damnable)

1. Capable of being damned.
2. Deserving of damnation; very bad.

   That damnable fridge has stopped working again.

Derived terms

• damnableness

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French dampnable, from Latin damn?bilis; surface analysis damner +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.nabl/

Adjective

damnable (plural damnables)

1. damnable

English

Etymology

From Middle English dampnablely; equivalent to damnable +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæmn?bli/

Adverb

damnably (comparative more damnably, superlative most damnably)

1. In a damnable manner.
   • 1759, Charles Macklin, Love a la Mode, Act II, [1]

     The people were in hopes he had killed the lawyers, and were damnably disappointed when they found he had only broke the leg o' the one, and the back of the other.

   • 1826, Allan Cunningham, Paul Jones, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, Volume II, Chapter V, p. 145, [2]

     But I am blabbing damnably; come, tell me one little bit of the story, and I shall tell you the rest.

   • 1912, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act II, [3]

     By the way: my dressing-gown smells most damnably of benzine.

   • 1918, Hugh Walpole, The Green Mirror, New York: George H. Doran, Book I, Chapter VI, p. 109, [4]

     The young man was so damnably full of his experiences, so eager to compare one thing with another, so insistent upon foreign places and changes in England and what we'd all got to do about it.

   • 1922, D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod, New York: Thomas Seltzer, Chapter XVIII, p. 307, [5]

     And in his male spirit he felt himself hating her: hating her deeply, damnably.