:Dammit redirects here, to see the blink-182 song see Dammit (song). For other meanings, see Damn (disambiguation). "Damnation" (or, more commonly, "damn", or "goddamn") is widely used as a moderate profanity, which originated as such from the concept of punishment by God . Until around the mid-20th century, damn was a more offensive term than it's today, and was frequently represented as "D--n," "D---," or abbreviated to just "D." Religious In some forms of Western Christian belief, damnation t… (More on Damnation)