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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

... he had been skimming—'Sweet Bells' was honoured with a long notice. His head swam as he took in the effect with some effort. The critic was not one of those fallen angels of literature who rejoice over an unexpected recruit; he wrote with a kindly recollection of 'Illusion,' and his condemnation was sincerely reluctant; still, it was unmixed condemnation, and ended with an exhortation to the author to return to the 'higher and more artistic aims' of his first work. Mark's hand shook till the paper ...

— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey

... going for three hours, and when, cold and damp, we got inside a cottage for tea, I found that we had covered only twenty li—so we were told by an old fogey who brushed up the floor with a piece of bamboo. He was dressed in what might have been termed undress, and was most vigorous in his condemnation of foreigners. ...

— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle

... stir, and Cauchon burst out upon her with an awful threat—the threat of instant condemnation unless she obeyed. That made the very bones of my body turn cold, and I saw cheeks about me blanch—for it meant fire and the stake! But Joan, still standing, answered him ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... profits of the sweater or the pleasures of the voluptuary. He was morally lynched side by side with me. Months elapsed before the decision of the courts vindicated him; and even then, since his vindication implied the condemnation of the press, which was by that time sober again, and ashamed of its orgy, his triumph received a rather sulky and grudging publicity. In the meantime he had hardly been able to approach an American city, including even those cities which had heaped applause on him as ...

— How He Lied to Her Husband • George Bernard Shaw

... hath the princess pronounced your sentence of condemnation, and in her heart subscribed the stern order ...

— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

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