damnation
/dæmˈneɪʃn/ (bre, ipa) · /dæmˈneɪʃn/ (ame, ipa) · /dam-ˈnā-shən/ (ame, mw)
damnation — noun
1. in Christian belief, the fate of being sent by God to suffer forever in hell, or
in Christian belief, the fate of being sent by God to suffer forever in hell, or the act by which God decides this fate.
The preacher warned the village that lying about the harvest would bring eternal damnation.
collocation: eternal damnation
Medieval paintings often showed sinners falling into damnation while angels carried the good souls upward.
pattern: falling into damnation
Ignacio grew up afraid of damnation because his grandmother described hell in vivid detail every Sunday.
In the old sermon, the priest spoke of damnation as a punishment that no prayer could undo.
Élise stopped going to church after she rejected the idea that a loving God would send anyone to damnation.
- perdition
older and more literary; same religious meaning as damnation
- hellfire
vivid sermon word focused on the burning torment, not the verdict itself
- condemnation
wider meaning of formal disapproval; only sometimes religious
- salvation
the religious opposite: being saved from hell and welcomed into heaven
- redemption
being forgiven and rescued from sin, so damnation no longer applies
文法句型
damnation of [someone]
eternal damnation
用法筆記
Almost always tied to Christian or other religious contexts; outside religion, the word survives mainly in fixed exclamations and rhetorical phrases like 'eternal damnation' or 'the road to damnation'.