doom
Examples
And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.
Et peut-être est-ce là la condamnation encourue par Adam : connaître le bien et le mal, c'est-à-dire connaître le bien par le mal.
The chief among these is the railroad, the thirty thousand miles of which are so many tongues to proclaim the doom of past narrowness.
Le principal est le chemin de fer, dont les trente mille milles sont autant de langues proclamant la ruine de l'étroitesse du passé.
He died protesting his innocence, and prayed that the grass might never grow about his burial-place, as a witness to the injustice of his doom.
Il mourut en protestant de son innocence et pria pour que l'herbe ne poussât jamais autour de sa sépulture, en témoignage de l'injustice de sa condamnation.