damnation

1250–1300; Middle English dam(p)nacioun<Old French damnation<Latin damnātiōn- (stem of damnātiō), equivalent to damnāt(us) (past participle of damnāre;see damn, -ate¹) + -iōn--ion

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non·dam·na·tion, nounpre·dam·na·tion, nounself-dam·na·tion, noun

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What is verifiable is that, after supposedly saving David from damnation by demanding that a demon enter his body, Arne stabbed Alan Bono to death during a night of boozy partying.
The Real-Life ‘Demonic’ Murder That Inspired ‘The Conjuring’|Nick Schager|June 11, 2021|The Daily Beast
Let them not be abandoned of God, unto those Courses that will hasten them to a Damnation that slumbers not.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period|Various
Hell and Damnation are strange entertaining words upon the Stage!
A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage|Jeremy Collier
She assented with enthusiasm to the Doctrine of Eternal Damnation, and a gentler-hearted creature than she never lived.
Mount Music|E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross

The Damnation de Faust alone was given in its entirety a hundred and fifty times in thirty years.
Musicians of To-Day|Romain Rolland
Captain Damnation was made to retreat, and to intrench himself further off of Mansoul.
The Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus|John Bunyan

British Dictionary definitions for damnation

damnation

/ (dæmˈneɪʃən) /

noun

the act of damning or state of being damned

a cause or instance of being damned

interjection

an exclamation of anger, disappointment, etc

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Cultural definitions for damnation

damnation

Eternal punishment in hell. (See mortal sin/venial sin.)

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