damnatory

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The great objection to that Creed, apart from the damnatory clauses, is the certainty that it will be misunderstood by most of those who think they understand it at all.

From Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Rashdall, Hastings

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

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 J?kai, M?r

And with this damnatory estimate of the light-hearted, easy-natured Adderley Twining, Grog banged the door and departed.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

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