Condemn /(?)/
Con·demn
Condemn
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Condemned; p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning
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To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.
Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
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To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.
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To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe.
To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan.
And they shall condemn him to death.
The thief condemned, in law already dead.
No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn.
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To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver.
- To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
- To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain. (Law)