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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Facts which seemed small in themselves became large and black, and charged with damnatory significance in the lawyer's hands.
From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
The sense of the damnatory clauses has, however, not been weakened.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
He had fled from deserved retribution, knowing there was one man who held the damnatory secret.
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Henham, Ernest G.
Our own code has so far relaxed that this circumstance shall not be damnatory.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
He had learned Mrs. Stiggs's address, and the name of Trotter's Buildings, which details were to his mind circumstantial, corroborative, and damnatory.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony
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