Word Finder - condemn

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To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

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The president condemned the terrorists.

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To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

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To confer eternal divine punishment upon.

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To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

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The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.

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To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.

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To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.

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To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.

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To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.

Don't condemn him before you hear the evidence.

Even now I cannot find it in my heart to condemn them utterly.

Hearing the lengths his mate went through to condemn the human rendered him speechless.

He did not condemn fasting altogether, but thought that it ought to be resorted to in the spirit of gospel freedom according as each occasion should arise.

This chief is responsible to the people for his breaches of the law, and in serious cases they can condemn him to death.

You can't condemn someone who didn't do something.

As the general election approached the only question submitted to the electors was - Do you approve or condemn Lord Beaconsfield's foreign policy ?

God will not condemn the soul of a poor madman.

My mind was too awry to applaud or condemn his action.

There's no reason to fear it, no reason to condemn it.

I nowhere condemn the poor historical scholarship of English Protestants.

He is throughout more concerned for the wrong done to the faith at Ephesus than to himself, saying that if he held the views attributed to him by Cyril he would be the first to condemn himself without mercy.

One day He will return in judgment, to condemn the wicked and justify the righteous.

Garrison was highly critical of the Church for its refusal to condemn slavery.

It is the absolute will of Allah to pardon whomever he will and condemn whomever he will.

She had nothing to say to the man, unless it was to condemn him for kidnapping her, wedding her against her will, and dropping her like a sack of potatoes for his sisters to retrain.

She made no move toward the lever controlling the iron portcullis that would either free or condemn him.

She knew she was damned and wasn't willing to condemn anyone else with the creature in her blood.

Was he judged, condemned, and executed in thy stead, and now will he himself condemn thee?

The only thing that used to unite Unionism for many years was the opportunity to condemn IRA violence.

Tandy persuaded the corporation of Dublin to condemn by resolution Pitt's amended commercial resolutions in 1785.

In spite of the "enormities and filthinesses," which Giraldus says defiled the Irish Church, nothing worse could be found to condemn than marriages within the prohibited degrees and trifling irregularities about baptism.

This reform was justified by the religious intolerance of the parlements; by their scandalous trials of Calas, Pierre Paid Sirven (1709-1777), the chevalier de la Barre and the comte de Lally; by the retrograde spirit that had made them suppress the Encyclopaedia in 1759 and condemn Emile in.

The pope's choice of a book to condemn fell on Quesnel's Reflexions; in 1713 appeared the bull Unigenitus, anathematizing no less than one-hundredand-one of its propositions.

Which meant he was likely aware of what it would take to condemn her and was waiting for his opening.

Every time we say the creed in church, we condemn Arianism in ringing terms.

It is not just for reasons of home town loyalty, however, that the column declines to condemn such barbarity.

Socialists should of course unconditionally condemn the homophobic bigotry of these performers.

Land and People unreservedly condemn this latest act of racism against the much abused indigenous peoples of this, our, homeland.

I personally condemn this human tragedy that occurred, and also condole with the United States government on this tragedy.

We condemn the Government in London for this tactic to delay peace and confuse the electorate in Northern Ireland.

He was the first to condemn the heresy of Paul of Samosata.

It has left a sour taste in the mouth of the British worker, who is quick to detect and condemn hypocrisy.

That is idolatry - but it's easy to condemn that type of idolatry in Rome, when we can have equal idolatry.

Brilliantly marketed, and, rather perversely, often lauded by exactly the same kind of people who condemn Disney as the evil empire.

Rather than condemn the massacres of Kurds, the US escalated its support for Iraq.

Once, religion might have been somewhat standoffish from consumerism, and only entered the marketplace to censor and condemn it.

We totally and completely condemn any terrorism associated with Kashmir, as we do terrorism elsewhere in the world.

Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.

The university of Oxford was invited, on the 13th of February 1845, to condemn "Tract XC.," to censure the Ideal, and to degrade Ward from his degrees.

The evils of this complicated system are obvious, and easy to condemn.

Articles 21 -22 condemn immoral and irreligious newspapers, and forbid writers to contribute to them.

But he seems to have prided himself on a certain humanity, or even generosity of temper, which led him to avoid putting his enemies to death, though he did not scruple to condemn Renaud of Dammartin to the most inhuman of imprisonments.

Louis did not love his brothers, and he detested their policy, which without rendering him any service made his liberty and even his life precarious; yet, loath to condemn them to death, he vetoed the decree.

As much as I love her, I can't condemn her kind to the demons.

How did the anatomists persuade their peers to condone, rather than condemn, the noisome business of dissection?

We strongly condemn the cruel terrorist acts which targeted the innocent people of the United States.

The moral law, which has the right to acquit or condemn, always demands restitution, before mortals can " go up higher.

To condemn re-shaping or adaptation of this nature from a modern Western standpoint is to misunderstand entirely the Oriental mind and Oriental usage.

But, when the zeal of Epiphanius was kindled against him, when Jerome, alarmed about his own reputation, and in defiance of his past attitude, turned against his once honoured teacher, and Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria, found it prudent, for political reasons, and out of consideration for the uneducated monks, to condemn Origen - then his authority received a shock from which it never recovered.