darnationn.
Chiefly U.S. colloquial.
In profane use: = damnation n., int., adv., and adj..
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > euphemisms for stronger oaths > for 'damn'
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1798 Aurora (Philadelphia) 14 Aug. in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) at Nation It seems as if the Irish are as incorrigible as the darnation Bostonians.
1825 S. Woodworth Forest Rose i. iii Darnation take the garlic, I say.
1832 New Eng. Mag. (Boston) III. 380 We have ‘Tarnation’ and ‘darnation’ for damnation.
1840 Daily Pennant (St. Louis) 9 May It wouldn't take so much..to make it a darntation sight riz-er.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People iii. 33 If I didn't hold on to him he'd have us all to the darnation in five minutes.
1924 in Dial. Notes 5 265.
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