damnatory
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of damnatory
1675–85; < Latin damnātōrius, equivalent to damnā ( re ) ( see damn) + -tōrius -tory 1
Example Sentences
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Before Miss Arkwright's cutting dissyllables and Miss Wetherby's damnatory mien she was crushed.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Bird, Richard
Glancing round she caught sight of the damnatory root lying on the window-sill, and before he could stop her, had grasped it, and was putting it into her mouth.
From The Yellow Rose by J?kai, M?r
I have never seen him; but I should not like to subscribe to the damnatory sentence pronounced against him by the nobles of our acquaintance.
From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Velde, Carl Franz van der
This is courting patronage in a style rather too arrogant and damnatory.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John N.
I shall never quite get over the baneful effect of those damnatory fulminations.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur
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