Other forms: damnations
Damnation is condemnation to eternal punishment. Eternal damnation, fear of damnation, preach damnation.
It belongs to sermons and to Milton, and it is heard now more as an exclamation than as a doctrine. Damn and damnation were genuine profanity for centuries, which is why Victorian novels write d— instead. The Latin means simply a condemning.
1noundamnationCondemnation to eternal punishment.
“The preacher warned that sinners faced damnation in the fires of hell.”
damnation is a punishment.
Latin damnatio comes from damnare, to condemn or inflict loss, from damnum, harm.
Latin
damnatio
Old French
dampnacion
Middle English
dampnacioun
English, today
damnation
From Middle English dampnacioun, from Old French dampnacion, from Latin damnatio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA