devour widows" houses as guardians and administrators of their property

greater damnation "pei taken longe dom," Wyclif. The word denotes "judgment," "punishment." The verb from which it comes denotes "to judge," pass sentence, condemn. In 1 Corinthians 11:29, the words rendered damnation, discerning, judged, and condemnation, are all, in the original, parts or derivations of one and the same word; and so Wyclif admirably rendered them into the language of his day by words connected with one and the same English verb; "He that etith and drinkith vnworthili, etith and drinkith doomto him, not wisely demyngthe bodi of the Lord … and if we demydenwiseli us silf we schulden not be demyd, but while we be demydof the lord we ben chastised, that we be not dampnydwith this world." Compare also Chaucer, Monk's Tale, 15091,

" Dampnydwas he to deye in that prison."

Bible Word-Book, pp. 142, 143.

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