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Webster 1913 Edition


Condemnation

Con′dem-na′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
condemnatio
.]
1.
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.
Paley.
2.
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
.
Paley.
Whose
condemnation
is pronounced.
Shakespeare
3.
The state of being condemned.
His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of
condemnation
.
W. Irving.
4.
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.
John iii. 19.

Webster 1828 Edition


Condemnation

CONDEMNATION

,
Noun.
1.
The act of condemning; the judicial act of declaring one guilty, and dooming him to punishment.
For the judgment was by one to condemnation. Romans 5.
2.
The state of being condemned.
Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation. Luke 23.
3.
The cause or reason of a sentence of condemnation. John 3.

Definition 2024


condemnation

condemnation

English

Noun

condemnation (countable and uncountable, plural condemnations)

  1. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
  2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
  3. The state of being condemned.
  4. The ground or reason of condemning.
  5. The process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domain.

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