What is "condemnatory"

Usage examples of "condemnatory".

I explained to you the principles condemnatory of craniotomy and abortion, viewing these chiefly from the standpoint of the ethical philosopher and the jurist.

In the long-haired war protesters Milton saw his own shaggy, condemnatory son.

Hereupon Ned Crummins looked up from the card he had been turning over and over, more and more like one arriving at a condemnatory judgment of a fish.

Then, if Clara could speak to Vernon, which Laetitia would not have done for a mighty bribe, she could speak to De Craye, Laetitia thought deductively: this being the logic of untrained heads opposed to the proceeding whereby their condemnatory deduction hangs.

He drew up to relieve himself of a critical and condemnatory expiration of a certain length.

The representatives of this Paradise were then in possession of a critique of culture, they believed, that gave them immense power in condemnatory rhetoric for all things modern, or rather, all things past the chosen paradisaical epoch.

When they knew he heard them they looked shamefaced and turned away, but the soft-spoken words rang condemnatory in his ears and he was ashamed: he thought he failed his people.

Hadduth thought the sound mocking, perhaps even condemnatory, as if the Maker spoke through the throats of the dogs.

Sherret was surprised at the condemnatory note which rang through the last word.

Captain Abrane sniffed, loud as a horse, condemnatory as a cat, in speaking of him.

The idea came to him because of this image of the African bishop and saint and chider, whose thirty-two wholesome and gleaming teeth he clearly saw, flashing like two ivory blades (an upper teeth and a lower teeth) as he gnashed out condemnatory silver Latin.