DOOMING
Verb
dooming
present participle of doom
Noun
dooming (plural doomings)
The act by which something is doomed or fated; a condemnation.
Source: Wiktionary
DOOM
Doom, n. Etym: [As. d; akin to OS. d, OHG. tuom, Dan. & Sw. dom, Icel. d, Goth. d, Gr. do, v. t. Do, v. t., and cf. Deem, -dom.]
1. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak.
2. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty. Ere Hector meets his doom. Pope. And homely household task shall be her doom. Dryden.
3. Ruin; death. This is the day of doom for Bassianus. Shak.
4. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision. [Obs.] And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. Fairfax.
Syn.
– Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot; ruin; destruction.
Doom, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dooming.]
1. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.] Milton.
2. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death. Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. Dryden.
3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. Have I tongue to doom my brother's death Shak.
4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] J. Pickering.
5. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate. A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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