Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To condemn. · To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment. · To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively. · To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
Very; extremely.
The word "damn" employed as a curse. · A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot. · The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.
From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
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