foredamn

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ damn.

Verb

foredamn (third-person singular simple present foredamns, present participle foredamning, simple past and past participle foredamned)

1. (transitive, possibly vulgar) To damn beforehand or in advance
   • 1883, Alfred Domett, Ranolf and Amohia: A Dream of Two Lives - Volume 1:

     Pious Rousseau foredamn or save his soul / As he might hit or miss a cork-tree's bole ?

   • 1918, The American Home Missionary:

     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.

   • 1959, Mehdi Ali Seljouk, My Goddess: A Devotional Epic:

     We slouch and bellow, reminding in prayers our deathless woe And foredamn ourselves more by the ignorance of what we could not know.

Derived terms

• foredamned