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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

damnatory en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin damnatorius, corresponding to damn + -atory.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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

disapproving · censorious · condemning · reprehensive · damnatory · improbatory · reprehensory · disapprobatory · disapprobatory · reprehensive · condemning · condemnatory