Damnable definition

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Deserving damnation.
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Deserving condemnation; odious.
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Capable of being damned.
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Deserving of damnation.
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Deserving to be sworn at; outrageous; execrable.
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Origin of damnable

  • From Old French damnable

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Damnable Sentence Examples

  • They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined.

  • His Irenicum vere christianum is directed against David Pareus (1548-1622), professor primarius at Heidelberg, who in Irenicum sive de unione et synodo Evangelicorum (1614) had pleaded for a reconciliation of Lutheranism and Calvinism; his Calvinista aulopoliticus (1610) was written against the "damnable Calvinism" which was becoming prevalent in Holstein and Brandenburg.

  • Elizabeth herself patronized Giacomo Acontio, who thought dogma a "stratagema Satanae," and her last favourite, Essex was accused of being the ringleader of "a damnable crew of atheists."

  • All he says about their doctrine is it is damnable, or damning or destructive heresy.

  • The pope, in an allocution of 22nd June 1868, declared that these " damnable and abominable laws " which were " contrary to the concordat, to the laws of the Church and to the principles of Christianity," were " absolutely and for ever null and void."

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