(n.) The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
(n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
(n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now they pit salvation against damnation, national glory against famines, locusts, boils and immigrant hordes.
(2) He had been questioning his own church too, specifically its contention that "all who did not know and love Jesus were condemned to everlasting damnation".
(3) Tatchell said the new statement was not enough to call off the protest which will take place outside the Barbican on Thursday before Gergiev conducts the LSO in Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
(4) Even now, his schedule remains punishing: his production of Berlioz's Damnation Of Faust has just premiered in Paris, a work centring on Frida Kahlo should surface in Canada later this year, and a collaboration with Peter Gabriel called Zulu Time will arrive at the Roundhouse early next year.
(5) Blaaaak” out of my grandmother’s mouth travels a step beyond being a pejorative to having the hair-raising resonance of a word that damns as well as describes damnation itself.
(6) Looking back in 1994, Kael was as accurate as ever in pinpointing her own faults as a writer: "reckless excess in both praise and damnation ...
(7) The economy must be placated, nourished and revived, they believe, no matter what the cost – for the alternative is doom and damnation for us all.
(8) Just as in the 15th and 16th centuries you could sleep with your sister and kill and lie without fear of eternal damnation, today you can live exactly as you please as long as you give your ducats to one of the companies selling indulgences.
(9) Nothing the bishops discussed in Rome over the past few weeks will save me and my kind from damnation.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Purves as Mephistopheles and Peter Hoare as Faust in Terry Gilliam’s The Damnation of Faust, for the English National Opera.
(11) 75,000 men were arrested during this period for what was referred to as – in words of euphemistic damnation – “gross indecency”.
(12) Chilcot’s damnation of the misuse of defence resources before Iraq might as well be wrapping fish and chips.
(13) These factors include Demandingness, Awfulizing, I-Can't-Stand-It-Itis, and Self-Damnation.
(14) We’ve got no intention of following those radical elements in all the Christian churches, according to the Catholic churches in one or two countries, and going out of business.” The business is shame and damnation.
(15) The present, often strident and threatening, damnation of benzodiazepines oversteps the mark and causes avoidable misery to patients whose well-being has become largely and therapeutically dependent on the drug.
(16) Perhaps it's a pity, therefore, that all that survived of his preface to the novel was a single, dogmatic sentence: "As long as social damnation exists, through laws and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilisation and muddying a destiny that is divine with human calamity; as long as the three problems of the century - man's debasement through the proletariat, woman's demoralisation through hunger, the wasting of the child through darkness - are not resolved; as long as social suffocation is possible in certain areas; in other words, and to take an even broader view, as long as ignorance and misery exist in this world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless."
(17) A culture of eternal damnation has led to a worrying fashion for a sort of career-death penalty, in which the media and tweeters impose a top-up term on released prisoners who they think have got off lightly.
(18) But particularly singled out for special damnation : Haringey council.
(19) Meeting "the voice and embodiment of the jazz age, its product and its beneficiary, a popular novelist, a movie scenarist, a dweller in the gilded palaces", the reporter found instead, to his distinct hilarity, that Fitzgerald was "forecasting doom, death and damnation to his generation".
(20) It is true to say that the glory of man is his capacity for salvation; it is also true to say that his glory is his capacity for damnation.'
Salvation
Definition:
(n.) The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
(n.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness.
(n.) Saving power; that which saves.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
(2) She says even before the SBS report went to air she had tried to alert her boss at the Salvation Army to the abuse, because she felt staff at the centre were not doing all they could to prevent it from happening again.
(3) About 100 people put in résumés for a casual – and low-paid – job at the Salvation Army homeless shelter.
(4) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
(5) According to internet security experts our salvation lies in passwords.
(6) One is why people become entranced by the idea of the end of times, and the other is how they make sense after the event, when the predictions of salvation and catastrophe have failed to materialise.
(7) For the Salvation Army and the careworn guys outside the unused Saint Martin station, however, there are much more important priorities.
(8) In Australia, where an estimated 54,000 of Asia-Pacific’s 21 million-plus domestic workers are based, a Salvation Army report catalogued 16-hour days without breaks, non-payment of wages and physical violence.
(9) As evidence of this new-found fondness, the album features a guest appearance from a local Salvation Army band.
(10) Born into a Salvation Army family, Taylor became a "junior soldier" aged five, pledging allegiance to the charity – the organisation has a military-style structure – and by 16, she was a senior soldier.
(11) That television news report by the BBC's Michael Buerk in 1984 framed Ethiopia for a generation as a place of famine and in need of salvation.
(12) In July, PNG police arrested G4S guard Louie Efi and Salvation Army worker Joshua Kaluvia, charging them both with Barati’s murder.
(13) Community groups such as the Salvation Army have warned: “These laws will disproportionately affect marginalised young people, people experiencing homelessness, poverty and mental health issues.” They fear that the vulnerable people might be excluded from public spaces by the new system, but have nowhere else to go, and find themselves imprisoned as a result.
(14) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
(15) We’re not very kind to people who come up with their hand out and say, ‘Where’s your shelter?’” Indeed, every day, newcomers to Williston get off the bus or train and wander up Main Street to the Salvation Army, expecting to stay there while they find work or an apartment.
(16) Sure enough, a block later, there are a group of people waiting for the doors of the Salvation Army to open at 10pm.
(17) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(18) Suddenly, China’s stock exchanges have become wards of the Chinese Communist party – and their fate hardly bodes well for Xi’s declaration that the nation’s economic salvation will lie in allowing market forces to play a greater role in the allocation of resources.
(19) She recalls being pleased when an older male Salvation Army member was friendly at the charity's local youth club.
(20) It felt like an adventure.” In London, Ali Abuzeid helped to set up the National Front for the Salvation of Libya.