damnableness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

damnable +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

damnableness (usually uncountable, plural damnablenesses)

  1. The state or quality of being damnable.
    • 1911, H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli:
      There were two vigorous paragraphs upon the utter damnableness of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, a contagious damnableness I gathered, one wasn't safe within a mile of Holborn Viaduct, and a foul-mouthed attack on poor little Wilkins the novelist--who was being baited by the moralists at that time for making one of his big women characters, not being in holy wedlock, desire a baby and say so....