damnatoryadj.
1.
a. Conveying condemnation; condemnatory.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adjective] > censuring or condemning
censorious1536
judging1546
controlling1564
condemnatory1570
convictory1576
censorical1589
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censurious1604
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condemning1642
reprobating1645
outbraiding1655
twitting1655
reprobatory1657
perstrictive1659
damnatory1682
reprobative1785
1682 Case Prot. Eng. 7 The Sentence..is not pretended to be damnatory.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xxi. 118 I do not arraign the keenness or asperity of its damnatory style.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 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.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > attended by or causing affliction
eileOE
soreOE
unselec1050
evilc1175
derfa1225
stourc1275
feeble1297
illa1325
fella1400
unhappya1400
unwealful1412
importunea1425
noisomea1450
shrewd1482
importunable?c1485
importunate1490
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nippingc1550
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pressing1591
lacerating1609
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funestous1641
gravaminous1659
unkind1682
plightful1721
damning1798
acanthocladous1858
damnatory1858
fraught1966
1858 J. B. Norton Topics for Indian Statesmen 157 It was either a sneer or a most damnatory admission.
1862 W. 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. Theology. Containing or uttering a sentence of damnation; consigning to damnation; damning.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [adjective] > causing
damning1598
dooming1607
damnablea1617
damnatory1738
1738 D. Neal Hist. Puritans IV. 617 Athanasius's creed being disliked by reason of the damnatory clauses.
1838 T. Arnold Let. in A. P. Stanley Life of Dr. Arnold (1844) II. viii. 122 I do not believe the damnatory clauses in the Athanasian Creed under any qualification given of them.
1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 204/2 Nor was the absence of baptism damnatory.
Derivatives
ˈdamnatorily adv.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adverb] > censoriously or condemningly
controllingly1612
censoriously1679
reprobatively1817
judgingly1848
condemninglya1865
unflatteringly1874
condemnatorily1876
damnatorily1892
1892 J. Barlow Irish Idylls iv. 79 Somewhat damnatorily faint praise.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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