An archaic or obsolete form referring to damp or moisture; a variant or early form of the word 'dampness.'
Middle English form of 'damp' with an archaic nominalization, showing how the word 'dampness' evolved from earlier forms like 'dampne' in medieval texts.
Medieval writers spelled 'dampness' as 'dampne' without the final 's'—it's a fossile from when English was still figuring out how to make nouns from adjectives!
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