foredamn
verbEtymology From fore- + damn.
- Pious Rousseau foredamn or save his soul / As he might hit or miss a cork-tree's bole ?1883, Alfred Domett, Ranolf and Amohia: A Dream of Two Lives - Volume 1:
- We believe environment has as much to do with the bringing in of the Kingdom of God as does personal conversion. The time is past when children should be born and bred in places that foredoom and foredamn them.1918, The American Home Missionary
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- We slouch and bellow, reminding in prayers our deathless woe And foredamn ourselves more by the ignorance of what we could not know.1959, Mehdi Ali Seljouk, My Goddess: A Devotional Epic:
- Derived terms
- foredamned