damnatory

[ dam-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

/ ˈdæm nəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /

conveying, expressing, or causing condemnation; damning.

Origin of damnatory

1675–85; < Latin damnātōrius, equivalent to damnā(re) (see damn) + -tōrius -tory¹

Here are the damnatory admissions and confessions of the younger sister.

The Real Shelley, Vol. I (of 2) |John Cordy Jeaffreson
I lifted the breakfast cover, and saw before me a damnatory red herring.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) |Robert Louis Stevenson
On her way to the station she would leave the explanatory and damnatory letter for Helen Wood at the Island.

Wanted: A Husband |Samuel Hopkins Adams
Most of the Commissioners were equally unwilling to give up the doctrinal clauses and to retain the damnatory clauses.

The History of England from the Accession of James II. |Thomas Babington Macaulay

Your opinion as to the letters as a whole is so damnatory that I put them by.

Vailima Letters |Robert Louis Stevenson

damnatory

/ (ˈdæmnətərɪ, -trɪ) /

threatening or occasioning condemnation