The word damn goes back to Latin Damnare 'to inflict loss on'.originally to damn someone was to condemn them, but associations with being condemned to hell have coloured much of the later history of the world.the desire to avoid profanity led to less offensive alternative, such as darn, used since the 18th century.the older sense of 'to cendemn' survives in the phrase to damn with faint praise, which was popularised by the 18th-century poet Alexander Pope in his 'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot'.it means to give someone or something such unenthusiastic praise that you are really criticising them.
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The word damn goes back to Latin Damnare 'to inflict loss on'.originally to damn someone was to condemn them, but associations with being condemned to hell have coloured much of the later history of the world.the desire to avoid profanity led to less offensive alternative, such as darn, used since the 18th century.the older sense of 'to cendemn' survives in the phrase to damn with faint praise, which was popularised by the 18th-century poet Alexander Pope in his 'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot'.it means to give someone or something such unenthusiastic praise that you are really criticising them.
The word damn goes back to Latin Damnare 'to inflict loss on'.originally to damn someone was to condemn them, but associations with being condemned to hell have coloured much of the later history of the world.the desire to avoid profanity led to less offensive alternative, such as darn, used since the 18th century.the older sense of 'to cendemn' survives in the phrase to damn with faint praise, which was popularised by the 18th-century poet Alexander Pope in his 'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot'.it means to give someone or something such unenthusiastic praise that you are really criticising them.
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