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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Condemnation \Con"dem*na"tion\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
condemnation
noun
1: an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable; "his uncompromising condemnation of racism" [syn: {disapprobation}] [ant: {approbation}]
2: (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)
3: an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group [syn: {execration}, {curse}]
4: the condition of being strongly disapproved of; "he deserved nothing but condemnation"
5: (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise" [syn: {conviction}, {judgment of conviction}, {sentence}] [ant: {acquittal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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