damnder

alternative damneder

1. comparativecomparative form of damned: more damned

   “I’ve been a d——d fool, Mag,” he said, trying to smile—“a damnder fool than ever; and that’s saying a good deal——”

   1875, Stephen J[oseph] Mac Kenna, “Miss Wyatt Astonishes the Doctor”, in A Child of Fortune. […], volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 88

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   Blank departed, and [John] Forster arrived; and in the course of the interview [Charles] Dickens, thinking it would please him, took occasion to tell what had been said about him by Blank. “I am very sorry, my dear Dickens,” said Forster, “that I cannot return the compliment, for a damnder ass than your friend Mr. Blank I never met in a business affair!”

   1885, Edmund Yates, “People I Have Known”, in Fifty Years of London Life: Memoirs of a Man of the World, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 329–330

   Well, Bill Montgomery is a damnder fool than I took him to be. Why, I can follow that track for a week and tell within five minutes of the time he crosses every mud hole on the way. Jim Black never knowed much about the woods, but he ought to have known better than to leave signs as plain as these when he goes hunting such dangerous game as you and me, captain.

   1856, Jeremiah Clemens, chapter IV, in Bernard Lile; an Historical Romance, Embracing the Periods of the Texas Revolution, and the Mexican War, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, page 59

   Austin, was the fellow’s name, a damnder fool you would not want to see, I thought, when he came to me at Louisville and said, “General, I believe I can help you in this matter.”

   1890, Don Carlos Buell, interview; quoted in Harvey H. Smith, “Captain Thomas H[enry] Hines of [John Hunt] Morgan’s Confederate Cavalry and Bill Austin, Lincoln Spy”, in Lincoln and the Lincolns, memorial edition, New York, N.Y.: Pioneer Publications, […], November 1930, →OCLC, page 271

   Deponent further says that he spurned the offer and turned and left the room, when he was accosted by Mr. Clark Grier, who said to him, “You are a damnder fool than I thought you were.”

   1912 June 27, T. J. Culpepper, quotee, Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the Sixty-Second Congress, Second Session, volume XLVIII, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8901, column 2

   For [Arthur] Zimmermann’s faux pas over Japan and Mexico he had about an equal amount of contempt and almost of rage. He told me one day that every man in the German Foreign Office was a damned fool and made a damnder fool of himself every time he got the opportunity.

   1917 July, “a British sympathiser”, report to Arthur Balfour; quoted in George W. Liebmann, “Count Johann Bernstorff”, in Diplomacy Between the Wars: Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World, London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, 2008, →ISBN, page 105