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Expressing or imposing condemnation

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  • The "damnatory", or "minatory clauses", are the pronouncements contained in the symbol, of the penalties which follow the rejection of what is there proposed for our belief.
  • "Listen," he said, and read her the damnatory document.
  • “Excuse me,” said one, in a damnatory officious voice.
  • And bitter enough were the things they said: and damnatory, the two Somers.
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