Definition of Condemnation

Con´dem`na´tion
n.1.The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like.
- Paley.
2.The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
A legal and judicial condemnation.
- Paley.
Whose condemnation is pronounced.
- Shak.
3.The state of being condemned.
His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation.
- W. Irving.
4.The ground or reason of condemning.
This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil.
- John iii. 19.


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acquittal, action, anathema, arraignment, award, blame, castigation, censure, consideration, damnation, decision, decree, decrial, deliverance, denouncement, denunciation, determination, diagnosis, dictum, doom, excoriation, finding, flaying, fulmination, fustigation, impeachment, indictment, judgment, landmark decision, order, penalty, pillorying, precedent, prognosis, pronouncement, reprehension, reprobation, resolution, ruling, sentence, skinning alive, stricture, verdict

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