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damnation

[dam-ney-shuhn] / dæmˈneɪ ʃən /


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It’s a song about a ne’er-do-well who can’t help messing up, and Mr. Kahan wishes the best for him—hoping his greatest fears are earthly threats like personal safety and cancer and not eternal damnation.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

RN was regarded as beyond the pale, so the centre-right faced hell and damnation on the few occasions it joined them in a tacit arrangement to keep out the left.

From BBC Mar. 16, 2026

She was chasing records set by the popular fire-and-brimstone evangelist Billy Sunday; where he preached damnation, she preached salvation.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2025

It’s like a chemical cocktail of frustration, elation, inspiration, damnation — everything with an “-ation” on it.

From Seattle Times Dec. 26, 2023

And he tried to find one equally hearty in its pleasures of damnation, but he was smoldering so low that he could not keep the tempo up.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt




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