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Condemnation

noun

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

(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.

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"Condemnation" Quotes from Famous Books

... let this birthday be less gay for my absence. It ought to be the proudest in your life—proud because your example has taught each of your sons to do the difficult things which seem right. It would have been a condemnation of you if any one of us had ...

— Carry On • Coningsby Dawson

... nothing in your communication which induces me to modify the language of condemnation with which I characterized your order. It but strengthens me in the opinion that it stands "preeminent in the dark history of war for studied and ingenious cruelty." Your original order was stripped of all pretenses; ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... and with it eternal perdition" (p. 7). The demon disappeared in order to execute the sentence. Another devil read from his book that in Chile there was another bad woman. "Jesus sentenced her to death and condemnation" (p. 8). The devil ran to carry out the sentence. Another one appeared accusing a bad man of Cuzco, and this man was precisely the same who tarried to witness the scene at the cemetery. "When the just judge was about to sentence him to death and condemnation, Blessed ...

— The Legacy of Ignorantism • T.H. Pardo de Tavera

... with the belief that they were vessels set apart for some great and glorious end of Providence, were plainly told that they merited far heavier affliction than this which had now befallen; and they were reminded that it was their duty to desire even condemnation, that he who framed the heavens and the earth might be glorified! Then they heard comfortable conclusions, which might reasonably teach them to expect, that though in the abstract such were the obligations of ...

— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper

... sentenced to die, among them Santander, but Bolvar changed the penalty to banishment from the country. Santander always contended that the sentence of death had been unjust. The worst punishment that might have fallen upon the would-be-murderers was the unanimous condemnation of ...

— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell

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