damnatory
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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
Now there is nothing more damnatory than a sentence of this kind.
From Immortal Memories by Clement King Shorter
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
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 Sir Leslie Stephen
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 J. Arthur Hill
