damnatory

Example Sentences

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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

Ah, for how much misery is the above damnatory clause responsible!

From How the Bible was Invented A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society by Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch)

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 lifted the breakfast cover, and saw before me a damnatory red herring.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Sharman, Julian