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condemnation |
2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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