damnatory
conveying, expressing, or causing condemnation; damning.
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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 SergeantThey had crept to place through the slime of the lower courts and their robes of office bore the damnatory evidence.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceOne such opinion as Mr. Caird's outweighs a great deal of damnatory praise from ignorant journalists.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) | George EliotThe whole of the damnatory clause in the exhortation, from the word "unworthily" to "sundry kinds of death," is expunged.
Lands of the Slave and the Free | Henry A. MurrayMany 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
/ (ˈdæmnətərɪ, -trɪ) /
threatening or occasioning condemnation
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