damnatory

Example Sentences

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Annabel Cleeve now contributed her little damnatory verse to the commination service.

From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia

He had learned Mrs. Stiggs's address, and the name of Trotter's Buildings, which details were to his mind circumstantial, corroborative, and damnatory.

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony

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)

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 Smedley, W. T. (William Thomas)

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