damnatory

[ dam-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]
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adjective
  1. conveying, expressing, or causing condemnation; damning.

Origin of damnatory

1
1675–85; <Latin damnātōrius, equivalent to damnā(re) (see damn) + -tōrius-tory1

Words Nearby damnatory

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How to use damnatory in a sentence

  • Facts which seemed small in themselves became large and black, and charged with damnatory significance in the lawyer's hands.

    A Life Sentence | Adeline Sergeant
  • They had crept to place through the slime of the lower courts and their robes of office bore the damnatory evidence.

  • One such opinion as Mr. Caird's outweighs a great deal of damnatory praise from ignorant journalists.

  • The whole of the damnatory clause in the exhortation, from the word "unworthily" to "sundry kinds of death," is expunged.

  • Many examples might be cited; for the Satire, after the way of Satires, is almost entirely composed of damnatory clauses.

    The Love Affairs of Lord Byron | Francis Henry Gribble

British Dictionary definitions for damnatory

damnatory

/ (ˈdæmnətərɪ, -trɪ) /


adjective
  1. threatening or occasioning condemnation

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