This doesn't seem to have any existence except as a synonym of "ruin". Is it perhaps regional, or just used as an alternate because it flows better in context?
Supporting the hypothesis of regional usage is the similarity, sound-wise, to "tarnation".
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Taken up and treated here.
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Re: ruination
And tarnation was explored here. When damn became darn, damnation became darnation, which shortly became tarnation. I had forgotten how tarnation came
to be in my Southern dialect.
to be in my Southern dialect.
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