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noun

Condemnation n.

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."

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." "Whose condemnation is pronounced."

The state of being condemned. "His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation."

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."

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"Condemnation" Quotes from Famous Books

... arguments? Why, the persecutions of the early Christians, the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, the Spanish Inquisition, the Reign of Terror, the institution of Slavery, the coup d' etat of Louis Napoleon, are under the condemnation of history from no lack of arguments in their favor which it might puzzle a plain man to answer. But opinion in such matters is not determined by arguments, but by instincts. God, in his wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various

... 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, spend the public ...

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

... of necessity taken place occurred, and the grass land already present in the fields was made available for more profitable use. The Doctor in Hales' dialogue carefully excepts this sort of enclosure from condemnation: ...

— The Enclosures in England - An Economic Reconstruction • Harriett Bradley

... mystery and secrecy in our judicial proceedings must tend either to discredit the acquittal of the prisoner, or render the justice of his condemnation doubtful. ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... as it said: "pour la chose publique du votre royaume"—on the public concerns of the realm. And in this memorial the university subjects the fiscal administration of the country, together with other branches of the administration, to a drastic criticism, and passes a verdict of unqualified condemnation upon it. This remonstrance of the University of Paris rises to a degree of boldness, both in its demands and in its tone, that is quite foreign to anything which our house of deputies has done or might be expected to do. It points out that the revenues have not been expended for the purposes ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

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