damnatory

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Nevertheless, its contents were discussed pretty widely, and were said to be of a nature very damnatory to Algernon Errington's character.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

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.

It is not necessarily destructive of the most charming theories, but it is very definite and damnatory as to facts.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various

Ah, for how much misery is the above damnatory clause responsible!

From How the Bible was Invented A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society by Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch)

We remember two criticisms of the same work in the same week: one laudatory, especially of the facility and accuracy of its classical translations; the other damnatory for its cumbrous and unscholarlike versions.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various