CONDEMNATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does condemnation mean? 

• CONDEMNATION (noun)
  The noun CONDEMNATION has 5 senses:

1. an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable

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

4. the condition of being strongly disapproved of

5. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed

  Familiarity information: CONDEMNATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDEMNATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

condemnation; disapprobation

Context example:

his uncompromising condemnation of racism

Hypernyms ("condemnation" is a kind of...):

disapproval (the expression of disapproval)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "condemnation"):

animadversion; censure (harsh criticism or disapproval)

demonisation; demonization (to represent as diabolically evil)

Derivation:

condemn (express strong disapproval of)

condemn (pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law)

condemn (demonstrate the guilt of (someone))

Sense 2

Meaning:

(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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("condemnation" is a kind of...):

disapproval (the act of disapproving or condemning)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

condemn (declare or judge unfit for use or habitation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

condemnation; curse; execration

Hypernyms ("condemnation" is a kind of...):

denouncement; denunciation (a public act of denouncing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "condemnation"):

anathema (a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication)

imprecation; malediction (the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult))

Sense 4

Meaning:

The condition of being strongly disapproved of

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

he deserved nothing but condemnation

Hypernyms ("condemnation" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Derivation:

condemn (declare or judge unfit for use or habitation)

condemn (express strong disapproval of)

condemn (pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law)

condemn (demonstrate the guilt of (someone))

Sense 5

Meaning:

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

condemnation; conviction; judgment of conviction; sentence

Context example:

the conviction came as no surprise

Hypernyms ("condemnation" is a kind of...):

final decision; final judgment (a judgment disposing of the case before the court; after the judgment (or an appeal from it) is rendered all that remains is to enforce the judgment)

Domain category:

criminal law (the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "condemnation"):

murder conviction (conviction for murder)

rape conviction (conviction for rape)

robbery conviction (conviction for robbery)

 Context examples 

“I don't know all I have done, in my fatuity,” said Mr. Wickfield, putting out his hands, as if to deprecate my condemnation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I received Lanyon’s condemnation partly in a dream; it was partly in a dream that I came home to my own house and got into bed.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Feelings rather natural than heroic possessed her; instead of considering her own dignity injured by this ready condemnation—instead of proudly resolving, in conscious innocence, to show her resentment towards him who could harbour a doubt of it, to leave to him all the trouble of seeking an explanation, and to enlighten him on the past only by avoiding his sight, or flirting with somebody else—she took to herself all the shame of misconduct, or at least of its appearance, and was only eager for an opportunity of explaining its cause.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And such condemnation!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

On the contrary it was a relief to her, to be spared the communication of what would give such affliction to them, and to be saved likewise from hearing that condemnation of Edward, which would probably flow from the excess of their partial affection for herself, and which was more than she felt equal to support.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Yates might consider it only as a vexatious interruption for the evening, and Mr. Rushworth might imagine it a blessing; but every other heart was sinking under some degree of self-condemnation or undefined alarm, every other heart was suggesting, What will become of us? what is to be done now?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

That she might not appear, however, to observe or expect him, she kept her eyes intently fixed on her fan; and a self-condemnation for her folly, in supposing that among such a crowd they should even meet with the Tilneys in any reasonable time, had just passed through her mind, when she suddenly found herself addressed and again solicited to dance, by Mr. Tilney himself.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But her condemnation of him did not blind her to the impropriety of their having been written at all; and she was silently grieving over the imprudence which had hazarded such unsolicited proofs of tenderness, not warranted by anything preceding, and most severely condemned by the event, when Marianne, perceiving that she had finished the letters, observed to her that they contained nothing but what any one would have written in the same situation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch to nothing more than a short decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could, with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject by a question which had been long uppermost in her thoughts; it was, Have you ever read Udolpho, Mr. Thorpe?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)