damnatory

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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

With regard to one or two damnatory charges, he implicitly believed them to be true, but he failed to secure any substantial proof whatever.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles

He continued to hold the damnatory evidence within a foot of Monsieur Pettipon's staring incredulous eyes.

From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Connell, Richard

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

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