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A damned human "in damnation" is said to be either in hell, or living in a state wherein they are divorced from Heaven and/or in a state of disgrace from God's favor. Following the religious meaning, the words damn and goddamn are a common form of religious profanity , in modern times often semantically weakened to the status of interjections .
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments, "one of the best, and best-known" critiques of applied statistics. [2] It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. — "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) [5]
or, "I just washed the damn(ed) car!" or, "The damn(ed) dog won't stop barking!" (The word "damned" is usually only used in North America, whereas in other English speaking countries the word is simply "damn".) This is simply not true. "damned" and "God-damned" may have fallen out of fashion but it is certainly not US-specific usage.
A Few Sighs from Hell (Or The Groans of the Damned Soul). Diggory Press, ISBN 978-1-84685-727-0; Challoner, Richard (1801). "Day 13: On hell." . Think Well On't or, Reflections on the great truths of the Christian religion for every day of the month. T. Haydock. Edwards, Jonathan. The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners.
Twitter user Bonerman Inc was the unfortunate recipient of the bad omen and posted the photo along with the caption: "hey @mcdonalds i ordered a sundae but instead you gave me the souls of the ...
The Damned, by French author Joris-Karl Huysmans originally published as Là-Bas in 1891; The Damned, a 1952 novel by John D. MacDonald, 1952; The Damned, a 1983 book by Linda Hoy; The Damned Trilogy, a series of books by Alan Dean Foster published between 1991 and 1993; Damned, a 2011 book by Nancy Holder; Damned, by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011
The worm of the damned is a guilty conscience, that the damned will suffer over the fact of having separated themselves from God, that the damned will physically weep on Judgement Day, that hell is so full of darkness that the damned can only see things which will torment them, that the "disposition of hell" is "utmost unhappiness", that the ...