01 n. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
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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.
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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.
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The state of being condemned.“His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation.” — W. Irving.
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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.