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Condemn   /kəndˈɛm/   Listen
verb
Condemn  v. t.  (past & past part. condemned; pres. part. condemning)  
1.
To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. "Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done." "Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?"
2.
To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. "The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it."
3.
To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; with to before the penalty. "Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe." "To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan." "And they shall condemn him to death." "The thief condemned, in law already dead." "No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn."
4.
To amerce or fine; with in before the penalty. "The king of Egypt... condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver."
5.
To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
6.
(Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
Synonyms: To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge.






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"Condemn" Quotes from Famous Books



... stage—in good time, that he did not live to this our age of seriousness. The fidgety pleasant old Teazle King too is gone in good time. His manner would scarce have passed current in our day. We must love or hate—acquit or condemn—censure or pity—exert our detestable coxcombry of moral judgment upon every thing. Joseph Surface, to go down now, must be a downright revolting villain—no compromise—his first appearance must shock and give horror—his specious plausibilities, which the pleasurable ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... to show that the religion of Greece, as embraced by the people, did not prevent or even condemn those social evils that are the greatest blot on enlightened civilization. It did not discourage slavery, the direst evil which ever afflicted humanity; it did not elevate woman to her true position at home or in public; it ridiculed those passive virtues ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume I • John Lord

... that the women prefer a vulgar-fraction of a man, an Eskimo equity in connubial bliss, to spearing walrus on their own account is a significant factor in the problem. And before we piously condemn either the lord or the lady in the case, it is well that we adjust our judgment to the latitude of 68 deg. North and take cognizance of the fact that no seductive "Want Columns" in the daily press here offer ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... not so very many of ourselves, as yet. There will be twice as many of us in a few years, and very much less than half as much capital. Understand above all that we are getting into bad habits— habits we should despise in a corporation, and condemn by very bad names in any individual ...
— An American Politician • F. Marion Crawford

... had lost interest in the white horse as well as in his master. That was the construction which Dade pessimistically put upon her smiling assurance that she could never be so selfish as to take Senor Hunter's wonderful Surry and condemn him to some commonplace caballo; though she gave also a better reason than that, which was that her own horse was already saddled—witness the peon leading the animal into the patio at that very moment—and that an exchange would mean delay. Dade took both reasons smilingly, ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower


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