SELF-CONDEMNATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-condemnation mean? 

• SELF-CONDEMNATION (noun)
  The noun SELF-CONDEMNATION has 1 sense:

1. an admission that you have failed to do or be something you know you should do or be

  Familiarity information: SELF-CONDEMNATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-CONDEMNATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An admission that you have failed to do or be something you know you should do or be

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

self-accusation; self-condemnation

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

confession (an admission of misdeeds or faults)

accusal; accusation (a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt)

 Context examples 

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)

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)

But perseverance in humility of conduct and messages, in self-condemnation for Robert's offence, and gratitude for the unkindness she was treated with, procured her in time the haughty notice which overcame her by its graciousness, and led soon afterwards, by rapid degrees, to the highest state of affection and influence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)