condemnation n
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]

Condemnation \Con"dem*na"tion\, n. [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.

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