Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being damnable, or of deserving condemnation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
damnable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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To the rich, you must show the vanity of this world; and the nature and necessity of self-denial; and the damnableness of preferring the present state to the next; together with the necessity of improving their talents in doing good to others.
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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Father's love, telling the damnableness of our sin by giving His very life blood to get it out of us; so telling us how we might really know the mother-heart of the Father.
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But as soon as he began to identify himself with his hero it was all up with Faust's utter damnableness: a young poet does not plan to send his own soul to perdition.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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"It's the great consolation for all the damnableness of the human existence.
December Love Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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