n. [ L. condemnatio. ] 1. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. [ 1913 Webster ] In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture. [ 1913 Webster ] A legal and judicial condemnation. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ] Whose condemnation is pronounced. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. The state of being condemned. [ 1913 Webster ] His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. The ground or reason of condemning. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |