All 7 Uses of
condemn
in
Crime and Punishment
- I don't condemn her for it, I don't blame her, for the one thing left her is recollection of the past, and all the rest is dust and ashes.†
Chpt 1.2
- He went in like a man condemned to death.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- "Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once!†
Chpt 2.6
- This sensation might be compared to that of a man condemned to death who has suddenly been pardoned.†
Chpt 2.7
- You see, you know of course that my mother has scarcely anything, my sister happened to have a good education and was condemned to drudge as a governess.†
Chpt 5.4
- "Perhaps I've been unfair to myself," he observed gloomily, pondering, "perhaps after all I am a man and not a louse and I've been in too great a hurry to condemn myself.†
Chpt 5.4
- And in the end the criminal was, in consideration of extenuating circumstances, condemned to penal servitude in the second class for a term of eight years only.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(condemn as in: She condemned their plan) express strong criticism