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Condemnation

noun

An expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable. Synonym: disapprobation. Antonym: approbation.

(law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building).

An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group. Synonyms: curse, execration.

The condition of being strongly disapproved of.

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed. Synonyms: conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence. Antonym: acquittal.

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"Condemnation" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ever since her father's condemnation, her daily and nightly thoughts had dwelt on the fear of her grandfather's communication with the king's confessor being rendered unavailable for want of the time necessary for enabling the friends in London to whom it was trusted, to ...

— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

... not all corrupt or place-hunters. One of them, the Earl of Dartmouth, was a saint in spirit. Lord North, the king's chief minister, was not corrupt. He disliked his office and wished to leave it. In truth no sweeping simplicity of condemnation will include all the ministers of George III except on this one point that they allowed to dictate their policy a narrow-minded and ignorant king. It was their right to furnish a policy and to exercise the powers of government, appoint to office, ...

— Washington and his Comrades in Arms - A Chronicle of the War of Independence • George Wrong

... thought it was the suit, and said so to one another, ignoring the twenty women more daringly clad but less perilously beautiful. Could one have winnowed out of the souls of these disapproving ones what lay at bottom of their condemnation of her suit, it would have been found to be the sex-jealous thought: THAT NO WOMAN, SO BEAUTIFUL AS THIS ONE, SHOULD BE PERMITTED TO SHOW HER BEAUTY. It was not fair to them. What chance had they in the conquering of males with so dangerous a ...

— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London

... the new form they had taken. Under his successor the scene changed. An imperial edict appeared, which deprived the Bohemian Brethren of their religious freedom. Now these differed in nothing from the other Utraquists. The sentence, therefore, of their condemnation, obviously included all the partisans of the Bohemian Confession. Accordingly, they all combined to oppose the imperial mandate in the Diet, but without being able to procure its revocation. The Emperor and ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... afterwards took the name of the Jacobite faith from one of its popular supporters, might perhaps be distinguished by the microscopic eye of the controversialist from the faith of Eutyches; but they equally fell under the condemnation of the council of Chalcedon. Egypt was no longer divided in its religious opinions. There had been a party who, though Egyptian in blood, held the Arian and half-Arian opinions of the Greeks, but that party had ceased to exist. Their religion had pulled one way and their political feelings ...

— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) • S. Rappoport

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