Thesaurus: condemnation

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1. n. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
2. n. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
3. n. The state of being condemned.
4. n. The ground or reason of condemning.
5. n. an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable
6. n. (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)
7. n. an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
8. n. the condition of being strongly disapproved of
9. n. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
10. 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. Shak. 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.
11. n:100 n. (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) n. the condition of being strongly disapproved of