Hypertext Webster Gateway: "condemnation"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Condemnation \Con"dem*na"tion\, n. [L. condemnatio.]
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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

condemnation
n 1: an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or
morally culpable; "his uncompromising condemnation of
racism" [syn: {disapprobation}] [ant: {approbation}]
2: the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or
judging to be unfit for use (as a food product)
3: an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on
someone or some group [syn: {execration}, {curse}]


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