damnation的词源

英文词源

damnation (n.)

c. 1300, "condemnation to Hell by God," also "fact of being condemned by judicial sentence," from Old French damnation, from Latin damnationem (nominative damnatio), noun of action from past participle stem of damnare (see 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]

中文词源

damnation：天谴

来自damn, 诅咒，谴责。

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damnation：罚入地狱，遭天谴  

词根词缀： -damn-惩罚 + -ation名词词尾