damnatory
Example Sentences
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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
"No, no!" said the clergyman, as though he were bound on behalf of the family to repudiate an idea that was so damnatory to its honour.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
Hans was both annoyed and surprised as time passed on and the "cakes succulent but damnatory" were not forthcoming from Gottlieb's oven.
From A Romance Of Tompkins Square 1891 by W. T. (William Thomas) Smedley
The work of ingenuity in question turned out to be a decree of excommunication, certainly a very ponderous and damnatory one, compiled by Ernulphus, a learned bishop of Rochester.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
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 Charles James Lever
