damnatory

dam·na·to·ry

threatening with damnation; damning
condemning: damnatory evidence

Origin of damnatory

Classical Latin damnatorius

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damnatory

adjective

Threatening with or expressing condemnation; damning.

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Adjective

(not comparable)

containing a sentence of condemnation

Origin

From Latin damnatorius, corresponding to damn +‎ -atory

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The sense of the damnatory clauses has, however, not been weakened.
But, though in 1680 he published his Unreasonableness of Separation, his willingness to serve on the ecclesiastical commission of 1689, and the interpretation he then proposed of the damnatory clauses of the Athanasian creed, are proof that to the end he leaned towards toleration.

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