About The Word Condemnation

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Condemnation

Condemnation Meaning & Definition
Condemnation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Condemnation?

[n] (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"
[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] an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable; "his uncompromising condemnation of racism"
[n] an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
[n] the condition of being strongly disapproved of; "he deserved nothing but condemnation"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Condemnation: conviction | curse | disapprobation | execration | judgment of conviction | sentence

Related Terms | Find terms related to Condemnation: acquittal | action | anathema | arraignment | award | blame | castigation | censure | consideration | damnation | decision | decree | decrial | deliverance | denouncement | denunciation | determination | diagnosis | dictum | doom | excoriation | finding | flaying | fulmination | fustigation | impeachment | indictment | judgment | landmark decision | order | penalty | pillorying | precedent | prognosis | pronouncement | reprehension | reprobation | resolution | ruling | sentence | skinning alive | stricture | verdict

See Also | anathema | animadversion | censure | condition | demonisation | demonization | denouncement | denunciation | disapproval | disapproval | final decision | final judgment | imprecation | malediction | murder conviction | rape conviction | robbery conviction | status

Condemnation In Webster's Dictionary

\Con"dem*na"tion\, n. [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. --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.

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