damnatory

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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

She gave her damnatory evidence neatly, and clearly, and with a seeming candor and regret, that disarmed suspicion.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

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

He would have considered it disgraceful to choose from mere impulse or from any such considerations as would fall under the damnatory epithet 'sentimental.'

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

The "Athanasian" creed is in disrepute, and its statement of dogmatic Christology is involved in the discredit attaching to the damnatory clauses.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)