damnatory
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Annabel Cleeve now contributed her little damnatory verse to the commination service.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
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
He had learned Mrs. Stiggs's address, and the name of Trotter's Buildings, which details were to his mind circumstantial, corroborative, and damnatory.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
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 Carl Franz van der Velde
Glancing round she caught sight of the damnatory root lying on the window-sill, and before he could stop her, had grasped it, and was putting it into her mouth.
From The Yellow Rose by M?r J?kai
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