damnatory

[ dam-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

1. conveying, expressing, or causing condemnation; damning. damning.

damnatory

/ ˈdæmnətərɪ; -trɪ /

adjective

1. threatening or occasioning condemnation

Word History and Origins

Origin of damnatory¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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They had crept to place through the slime of the lower courts and their robes of office bore the damnatory evidence.

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

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

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

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Related Words

• incriminating