They have no proof, and I'll swear through thick and thin rather than bring myself into this universal, this damnatory disgrace!
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
It was a gentle eye and but mildly curious, having no remote suspicion of the dreadful truth, for Sam had backed upon the chest of drawers and closed the damnatory open one with the calves of his legs.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
All the rogues of the fine sphere ran about with it, male and female; and there was the narrative that suggestively skipped, and that which trod the minuet measure, dropping a curtsey to ravenous curiosity; the apology surrendering its defensible cause in supplications to benevolence; and the benevolence damnatory in a too eloquent urgency; followed by the devout objection to a breath of the subject, so blackening it as to call forth the profanely circumstantial exposition.
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English