Damnability
(Dam`na*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being damnable; damnableness. Sir T. More.
Damnable
(Dam"na*ble) a. [L. damnabilis, fr. damnare: cf. F. damnable. See Damn.]
1. Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.
A creature unprepared unmeet for death,
And to transport him in the mind he is,
Were damnable.
Shak. 2. Odious; pernicious; detestable.
Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces.
Shak. Damnableness
(Dam"na*ble*ness), n. The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.
The damnableness of this most execrable impiety.
Prynne. Damnably
(Dam"na*bly), adv.
1. In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.
2. Odiously; detestably; excessively. [Low]
Damnation
(Dam*na"tion) n. [F. damnation, L. damnatio, fr. damnare. See Damn.]
1. The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
2. (Theol.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
How can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Matt. xxiii. 33.
Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation.
Shak. 3. A sin deserving of everlasting punishment. [R.]
The deep damnation of his taking- off.
Shak. Damnatory
(Dam"na*to*ry) a. [L. damnatorius, fr. damnator a condemner.] Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.
"Damnatory invectives." Hallam.
Damned
(Damned) a.
1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.
2. Hateful; detestable; abominable.
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves.
Shak. Damnific
(Dam*nif"ic) a. [L. damnificus; damnum damage, loss + facere to make. See Damn.] Procuring
or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.
Damnification
(Dam`ni*fi*ca"tion) n. [LL. damnificatio.] That which causes damage or loss.
Damnify
(Dam"ni*fy) v. t. [LL. damnificare, fr. L. damnificus: cf. OF. damnefier. See Damnific.] To
cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair. [R.]
This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth
of learning be not damnified.
Milton.
