Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: conviction, curse, disapprobation, execration, judgment of conviction, sentence

Antonyms: acquittal, approbation

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

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