Definition of Criminatory

1. Adjective. Charging or suggestive of guilt or blame. "Incriminatory testimony"


Definition of Criminatory

1. a. Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.

Definition of Criminatory

1. Adjective. Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Criminatory

criminalization
criminalize
criminalized
criminalizes
criminalizing
criminally
criminalness
criminals
criminate
criminated
criminates
criminating
crimination
criminations
criminative
criminatory (current term)
crimine
criminently
criminetly
criming
crimini
criminis
criminogenic
criminogenically
criminological
criminologies
criminologist
criminologists
criminology
criminous

Literary usage of Criminatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Horace Gay Wood (1876)
"criminatory communications by public officers acting in discharge of a public duty.—A criminatory communication made by a clerk of the peace to the justices ..."

2. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... Replica—Genet assumes an Angry and criminatory Tone—His Proposal to stop Payments on the St. Domingo Drafts—Discussions in relation to the Treaty of ..."

3. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"... is privileged, if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminatory matter which, without this privilege, ..."

4. The Principles and Practice of Discovery: With an Appendix of Forms by Edward Bray (1885)
"... as to criminatory or Penalising Discovery. (a) By Statute. In some cases the same statute which has declared some transaction illegal and has imposed a ..."

5. Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the by Juan Van Halen (1828)
"... by masked servants from his dungeon to the chamber of torment— Zorrilla addresses him in a criminatory summary—The author tortured—Manner in which ..."

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