Associations to the word «Condemnation»

Wiktionary

CONDEMNATION, noun. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
CONDEMNATION, noun. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
CONDEMNATION, noun. The state of being condemned.
CONDEMNATION, noun. The ground or reason of condemning.
CONDEMNATION, noun. The process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domain.

Dictionary definition

CONDEMNATION, noun. An expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable; "his uncompromising condemnation of racism".
CONDEMNATION, noun. (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).
CONDEMNATION, noun. An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group.
CONDEMNATION, noun. The condition of being strongly disapproved of; "he deserved nothing but condemnation".
CONDEMNATION, noun. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King