damnatory

Example Sentences

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He had fled from deserved retribution, knowing there was one man who held the damnatory secret.

From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Henham, Ernest G.

We have seen that it was Queen Elizabeth’s godson Sir John Harington, who first recorded the positive introduction of the damnatory oath.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

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

Before Miss Arkwright's cutting dissyllables and Miss Wetherby's damnatory mien she was crushed.

From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Bird, Richard

He had found that by doing so he could lower a judge in the estimation of the jury, and thus diminish the force of a damnatory charge.

From Cousin Henry by Trollope, Anthony