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damnatory, a.|ˈdæmnətərɪ|
[ad. L. damnātōri-us, f. damnātōr-em, agent-n. from damnāre: see damn v.]
1. Conveying condemnation; condemnatory.
1682Case Prot. Eng. 7 The Sentence..is not pretended to be damnatory. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. II. xxi. 118, I do not arraign the keenness or asperity of its damnatory style. 1884Pall Mall G. 11 Dec. 3/1 No one who knows Dean Burgon will be surprised to find that his view of these changes is entirely damnatory.
b. Occasioning condemnation; damning or ruinous in effect.
1858J. B. Norton Topics 157 It was either a sneer or a most damnatory admission. 1862W. M. Rossetti in Fraser's Mag. July 70 It is a fatal weakness in art, more damnatory by far than even the tendency to ungainliness.
2. Theol. Containing or uttering a sentence of damnation; consigning to damnation; damning.
1738Neal Hist. Purit. IV. 617 Athanasius's creed being disliked by reason of the damnatory clauses. 1838Arnold Let. in Stanley Life & Corr. (1844) II. viii. 122, I do not believe the damnatory clauses in the Athanasian Creed under any qualification given of them. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 204/2 Nor was the absence of baptism damnatory.
Hence ˈdamnatorily adv.
1892J. Barlow Irish Idylls iv. 79 Somewhat damnatorily faint praise. |