Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being damnable, or of deserving condemnation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
damnable .
Etymologies
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damnable + -ness
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Examples
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To the rich, you must show the vanity of this world; and the nature and necessity of self-denial; and the damnableness of preferring the present state to the next; together with the necessity of improving their talents in doing good to others.
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Father's love, telling the damnableness of our sin by giving His very life blood to get it out of us; so telling us how we might really know the mother-heart of the Father.
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But as soon as he began to identify himself with his hero it was all up with Faust's utter damnableness: a young poet does not plan to send his own soul to perdition.
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"It's the great consolation for all the damnableness of the human existence.
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