Hypertext Webster Gateway: "damnable"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Damnable \Dam"na*ble\, a. [L. damnabilis, fr. damnare: cf. F.
damnable. See {Damn}.]
1. Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves,
to be damned; of a damning nature.

A creature unprepared unmeet for death, And to
transport him in the mind he is, Were damnable.
--Shak.

2. Odious; pernicious; detestable.

Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces.
--Shak.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

damnable
adj : deserving a curse; "her damnable pride" [syn: {execrable}]


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