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damnably, adv.|ˈdæmnəblɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a damnable manner.
†1. So as to deserve or incur damnation. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋860 Cursedly and dampnably we han ygilt aȝeinst ȝoure gret lordship. 1522Act. 5–6 Edw. VI, c. 1 §1 A greate nombre of People..do wilfullye and dampnablye..abstayne and refuse to come to their Parishe Churches. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 149 It is granted, that the invisible Church cannot erre damnably. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 64 He should make himself damnably wicked as fast as he can.
2. In a ‘damnable’ way, execrably, confoundedly; sometimes merely as a strong intensive. (Now considered vulgar or profane.)
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. ii. 14, I haue mis-vs'd the Kings Presse damnably. 1667Dryden Wild Gallant i. i, I was drunk; damnably drunk with ale. 1687Congreve Old Bach. i. i, I find I am damnably in love. c1753in Hanway Trav. (1762) 417, I hate the dutch most damnably. 1843Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 87 The bitterness of hearing those infernally and damnably good old times extolled. |