damnatory

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We remember two criticisms of the same work in the same week: one laudatory, especially of the facility and accuracy of its classical translations; the other damnatory for its cumbrous and unscholarlike versions.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 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

Then with a damnatory waving-away of the offensive drawing he sauntered off to put his stuff in his locker.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon

He continued to hold the damnatory evidence within a foot of Monsieur Pettipon's staring incredulous eyes.

From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Connell, Richard

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