âme damnée

[ahm dah-ney]

noun

French.

plural

âmes damnées 

1. a person who is willingly or blindly the tool of another person.

Word History and Origins

Origin of âme damnée¹

Literally, “damned soul”

Example Sentences

She is the âme damnée of Macready, so that her verdict surprises me.

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This gentleman was the satellite, the adherent, and field marshal, the âme damnée, of Mackintavers.

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From the staccato remarks of the poisonous young woman, we, the audience, were to deduce the erratic eroticism of an âme damnée.

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He was the ame damnée of the Provisional Government—the man whose extreme opinions, intemperate circulars, and vehement patronage of persons professing the political creed of Robespierre—indisposed all moderate men to rally around the new system.

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Turkey, through Enver, who had imported from the Fatherland a band of military “instructors” under Liman von Sanders, became the âme damnée of Germany.

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