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English

WOTD – 16 March 2012, 16 March 2013, 16 March 2014, 16 March 2015

Etymology

From Old French damnifier, from Latin damnifico.

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Verb

damnify (third-person singular simple present damnifies, present participle damnifying, simple past and past participle damnified)

  1. (obsolete) To damage physically; to injure.
    Synonyms: harm, wound; see also Thesaurus:harm
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      he saw himselfe so freshly reare, / As if late fight had nought him damnifyde […]
    • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:
      The infectious raines most damnifying the poore saylers, who must be upon the decks to hand in their sailes, abiding the brunt […]
    • 1704, Daniel Defoe, The Storm:
      The High Tide at Bristol spoil'd or damnify'd 1500 Hogsheds of Sugars and Tobaccoes, besides great quantities of other Goods.
  2. (law) To cause injuries or loss to.

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