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damnatory

damnatory adjective: containing a sentence of condemnation.

Adjective

damnatory (not comparable)

  1. Containing a sentence of condemnation.
    • I had cut my knuckles against the pale young gentleman's teeth, and I twisted my imagination into a thousand tangles, as I devised incredible ways of accounting for that damnatory circumstance when I should be haled before the Judges.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 197

Synonyms of damnatory

All synonyms of damnatory

Origin of damnatory

From Latin damnatorius, corresponding to damn + -atory.

Questions about damnatory

What does damnatory mean?
Damnatory means containing a sentence of condemnation.
What part of speech is damnatory?
Damnatory is an adjective.

Words near damnatory in the dictionary

  1. damnatio ad bestias
  2. damnatio memoriae
  3. damnation
  4. damnation of memory
  5. damnations
  6. damnatory
  7. damnd
  8. damnded
  9. damnder
  10. damndest
  11. damnding

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