Hypertext Webster Gateway: "damning"

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

Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damned} (d[a^]md or
d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damning} (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or
d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p),
OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to
condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. {Condemn},
{Damage}.]
1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to
punishment; to sentence; to censure.

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
--Shak.

2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to
consign to perdition; to curse.

3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as
by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.

You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the
works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
--Pope.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And
without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope.

Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively,
and intensively.

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

Damning \Damn"ing\, a.
That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

damning
adj : threatening with damnation [syn: {damnatory}]

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