damnatory

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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

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 Trollope, Frances Eleanor

I shall never quite get over the baneful effect of those damnatory fulminations.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur

He had found that by doing so he could lower a judge in the estimation of the jury, and thus diminish the force of a damnatory charge.

From Cousin Henry by Trollope, Anthony

He would have considered it disgraceful to choose from mere impulse or from any such considerations as would fall under the damnatory epithet 'sentimental.'

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir