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ever-damned

ever-damned adjective: condemned to hell forever.

Adjective

ever-damned (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Condemned to hell forever.
    • And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd / Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes / Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd, / A waite whereto their ſeruice he applyes, / To aide his friendes, or fray his enimies: [...]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, pages 13–14
    • My Muse may not affect night-charming spels,
      whose force effects th’ Olympicke vault to quake,
      Nor call those grysly Goblins from their Cels,
      the euer-damned frye of Limbo lake.1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland, London: Thomas Woodcocke, The Eighth Eglog, page 55

Synonyms of ever-damned

Questions about ever-damned

What does ever-damned mean?
Ever-damned means condemned to hell forever.
What part of speech is ever-damned?
Ever-damned is an adjective.

Words near ever-damned in the dictionary

  1. ever'body
  2. ever-bearing
  3. ever-burning
  4. ever-busy
  5. ever-changing
  6. ever-damned
  7. ever-growing
  8. ever-lasting
  9. ever-loving
  10. ever-lovings
  11. ever-more

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