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▪ I. damning, vbl. n.|ˈdæmɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. The action of the verb damn, q.v.; condemnation; damnation.
c1400Apol. Loll. iii. 17 To tak þe sentence of daming. Ibid. xvii. 61 Vndur syn, bondage, nor damping. c1400Rom. Rose 6645 He etith his owne dampnyng. 1707Wycherley in Pope's Lett. (1735) I. 32 'Tis my infallible Pope has, or would redeem me from a poetical Damning.
2. Profane swearing: cf. damn v. 6.
1679T. Siden Hist. Sevarites ii. 16 Take heed of swearing, cursing, or damning. 1721De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 198, I heard a great deal of swearing and damning. 1914G. B. Shaw Pygmalion (1916) ii. 131, I dont mind your damning and blasting..but there is a certain word I must ask you not to use.
†3. A ‘company’ of jurors. Obs.
1486Bk. St. Albans F vj b, A Dampnyng of Jurrouris.
▪ II. damning, ppl. a.|ˈdæmɪŋ, ˈdæmnɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
1. That damns; that brings damnation.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. iii. 185 To take a damning periured oath. 1795Southey Joan of Arc iii. 508 Such a look..As shall one day, with damning eloquence, Against the oppressor plead! 1803T. Beddoes Hygëia x. 78 A religion full of damning dogmas. 1882A. B. Bruce Parab. Teaching of Christ ii. viii. (1891) 384 That the supreme virtue is love, and that the damning sin is selfish inhumanity.
†b. In passive sense: Incurring damnation. Obs. rare. (Cf. damn v. 4 c.)
1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. (1669) 283/2 [They] are so cruell to their dying damning souls, that they turn Christ their Physician out of doors.
2. That leads to or occasions condemnation or ruin. (Cf. damn v. 3.)
1798Cooke in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 421 We took up the two Shears to-day, with damning papers. 1844Disraeli Coningsby vi. i, Without which..the statesman, the orator, the author, all alike feel the damning consciousness of being charlatans.
3. Addicted to profane swearing.
1667Pepys Diary 14 June, The most debauched, damning, swearing rogues that ever were in the Navy.
Hence ˈdamningly adv., ˈdamningness.
1709Chandler Effort agst. Bigotry 32 No Party of Protestants is so in the Right..that the other be damningly wrong. 1645Hammond Pract. Catech. i. §3. 85 For the emptinesse and damningnesse of them [sins]. |