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means The act of being condemned to eternal punishment, or more loosely, a curse of ruin and doom passed on something or someone.

from From Latin damnare, 'to condemn or inflict loss on,' rooted in damnum, 'damage, harm, cost.' It started life in Roman courtrooms as ordinary legal sentencing language — handing down a verdict, imposing a penalty. Christian Latin seized the word for theology, repurposing the judge's gavel for God's, and 'damnation' came to mean the ultimate sentence: condemnation of the soul. The courtroom origins linger in the word's bureaucratic chill — it still sounds like a verdict being read aloud.