Damnatory [adjective]

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

They had crept to place through the slime of the lower courts and their robes of office bore the damnatory evidence.

One such opinion as Mr. Caird's outweighs a great deal of damnatory praise from ignorant journalists.

The whole of the damnatory clause in the exhortation, from the word "unworthily" to "sundry kinds of death," is expunged.

Many examples might be cited; for the Satire, after the way of Satires, is almost entirely composed of damnatory clauses.

Of the particulars of the Solicitor-Generals conclusions respecting these damnatory marks on the wet grass there is no record.

The judgments could not but be damnatory, and their expression in journalistic phrase would disturb his mind with evil rancour.

On her way to the station she would leave the explanatory and damnatory letter for Helen Wood at the Island.

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

He at once incriminated himself, and was soon induced to bring damnatory accusations against his friends.