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Meanings of denunciative in English

Containing warning of punishment.

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Examples for "denunciatory"
1
The language of the Presbyterian champions was equally bold, denunciatory, and explicit.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
2
Warming with my own complaints, I soon became fearfully profane and denunciatory.
Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
3
Randle Janvers Binderbeck is secretly consoling himself by writing the most denunciatory articles.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919
4
He composed various denunciatory answers with which to annihilate his brother.
Mr. Opp
5
He sprang off to confront Carmena, with denunciatory words and gestures.
Bloom of Cactus
1
So the instruments were tuned and the comminatory verses sung.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
2
But presently Arran began to suspect that the portrait was not as comminatory as he could have wished.
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories
3
I detected something comminatory in his yellow, emaciated countenance, but I believe now he was simply startled by my youth.
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
4
Captain Tom went sailing from island to island, appearing unexpectedly in various localities, beaming, noisy, anecdotal, commendatory or comminatory, but always welcome.
An Outcast of the Islands
5
"She has gone after him," stated Fyne in comminatory tones.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts