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Condemn v. t. (past & past part. condemned; pres. part. condemning)

1.

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. "Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done." "Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?"

2.

To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. "The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it."

3.

To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; with to before the penalty. "Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe." "To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan." "And they shall condemn him to death." "The thief condemned, in law already dead." "No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn."

4.

To amerce or fine; with in before the penalty. "The king of Egypt... condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver."

5.

To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.

6.

(Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

Synonyms: To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge.

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"Condemn" Quotes from Famous Books

... Greece, and his doctrines were eagerly embraced by many among the Romans during the corrupt period of the Roman empire. Many of these disciples carried the doctrines of their master to an excess that he himself would have been the first to condemn. Allowing full indulgence to every appetite and passion, their whole philosophy was expressed in the proverb, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." No pure or exalted life could be nourished in the unwholesome atmosphere of such ...

— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

... bosom could warm Is changed to the grain of disgust! Oh, fie on the spoiler for daring to soil her Gracefulness all in the dust! Say, wise in the law, did the people with awe Acknowledge thy rule o'er them— A magistrate true, to all dealing their due, And just to redress or condemn? Or was righteousness sold for handfuls of gold In the scales of thy partial decree; While the poor were unheard when their suit they preferr'd, And appeal'd their distresses to thee? Say, once in thine hour, was thy medicine of power To extinguish the fever of ail? And ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... utterly corrupt. If all the sins of your past life were marshaled in single file, they would reach from here to hell. If you have escaped all other sins, the fact that you have rejected the mission of the Son of God is enough to condemn you forever, pushing you off into bottomless darkness, struck by ten thousand hissing ...

— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... which are conquests by England. Where are the people to whom Providence had originally assigned those countries, until the European, in his thirst for aggrandizement, on that very principle of might which you condemn, tore them violently away. Gone, extirpated, until scarce a vestige of their existence remains, even as it must he, in the course of time, with the Indians of these wilds—perhaps not in this century or the next, but soon or late assuredly. These two people—the South Americans ...

— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

... not my honoured master see this letter. He will think I have the boldness to reflect upon him: when, God knows my heart, I only write to condemn myself, and my unwomanly actions, as you were pleased often ...

— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson

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