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.