damnatory

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And with this damnatory estimate of the light-hearted, easy-natured Adderley Twining, Grog banged the door and departed.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

The feeling of the Whigs against these anti-slavery men was bitter and damnatory to the last degree.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by Julian, George W.

So while Mr. Lane hunted adjectives, and ran sad-sounding and damnatory substantives to earth, Eustace hugged himself, and secretly chuckled over his pilgrim's progress towards the pages of Vanity Fair.

From The Folly Of Eustace 1896 by Hichens, Robert Smythe

The great objection to that Creed, apart from the damnatory clauses, is the certainty that it will be misunderstood by most of those who think they understand it at all.

From Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Rashdall, Hastings

As if to feed his mind with hope, he would recapitulate to himself all the weighty and damnatory details which environed Cashel, and which, by their singular consistency and coherence, seemed irrefutable.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James