(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.'
Save
Definition:
(n.) The herb sage, or salvia.
(a.) To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
(a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
(a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
(a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
(a.) To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
(a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
(v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
(a.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
(conj.) Except; unless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(2) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(3) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
(4) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(5) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(6) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
(7) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(8) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(9) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
(10) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
(11) Thus, it is obvious that new measures will have to be taken if lives are to be saved in future events of this nature.
(12) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(13) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
(14) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
(15) Patients treated with ciprofloxacin may need added coverage for anaerobes, but the drug's excellent activity against nosocomial pathogens and its availability in oral form allow for an early change to oral therapy without compromising effectiveness coupled with added savings and convenience.
(16) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
(17) To comply with these rules, interest is not paid on Islamic savings or current accounts, or charged on Islamic mortgages.
(18) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
(19) In the lowest prevalence scenario (0.02 initial prevalence), initiation of the program resulted in a projected savings of 2.3 life years per HIV-negative drug user, compared with 1.7 and 1.3 years under medium (0.25) and high (0.60) prevalence, respectively.
(20) He denied that the probation service budget, which has been protected so far from 23% cuts, would be a particular target, but said it was not yet making the same level of savings as was being required of the police.