damnatory

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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

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

Our own code has so far relaxed that this circumstance shall not be damnatory.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Facts which seemed small in themselves became large and black, and charged with damnatory significance in the lawyer's hands.

From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

It is not necessarily destructive of the most charming theories, but it is very definite and damnatory as to facts.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various