damnatory
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, its contents were discussed pretty widely, and were said to be of a nature very damnatory to Algernon Errington's character.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
The sense of the damnatory clauses has, however, not been weakened.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" 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 Carl Franz van der Velde
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
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
