damnatory

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   expressing, conveying, or bringing condemnation; damning

   The missing signature appeared to be damnatory evidence against the clerk.

From Latin damnatorius, 'condemning,' from damnator, 'one who condemns,' ultimately based on damnare, 'to condemn or inflict loss.' In English it can describe religious, legal, or figurative condemnation.

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