damnation

damnation
damnation c.1300, "condemnation to Hell by God," also "fact of being condemned by judicial sentence," from O.Fr. damnation, from L. damnationem (nom. damnatio), noun of action from pp. stem of damnare (see DAMN (Cf. damn)). As an imprecation, attested from c.1600.
Damnation follows death in other men,
But your damn'd Poet lives and writes agen.
[Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell, 1707 or 1708]

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