Damnify vs Prejudice - What's the difference?
damnify | prejudice |
(obsolete) Physically to damage; to injure.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
* 1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , I:
(legal) To cause injuries or loss to.
(countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
* (rfdate) (Macaulay)
(countable) Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
(countable) An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.
(obsolete) Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging.
* , II.ix:
(obsolete) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
To have a negative impact on someone's position, chances etc.
To cause prejudice.
As a verb damnify
is (obsolete) physically to damage; to injure.As a noun prejudice is
a harm, a damage.damnify
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Verb
- he saw himselfe so freshly reare, / As if late fight had nought him damnifyde [...].
- The infectious raines most damnifying the poore saylers, who must be upon the decks to hand in their sailes, abiding the brunt [...].
Derived terms
*prejudice
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
- Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man.
- I am free of all prejudices . I hate everyone equally.
- the first did in the forepart sit, / That nought mote hinder his quicke preiudize : / He had a sharpe foresight, and working wit
- (Locke)
- England and France might, through their amity, / Breed him some prejudice .