All 15 Uses of
condemn
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- If she is condemned, I never shall know joy more.
p. 81.9 *condemned = found legally guilty and sentenced to punishment
- I beg permission to have a few witnesses examined concerning my character, and if their testimony shall not overweigh my supposed guilt, I must be condemned, although I would pledge my salvation on my innocence.
p. 85.8condemned = found legally guilty
- I could not sustain the horror of my situation, and when I perceived that the popular voice and the countenances of the judges had already condemned my unhappy victim, I rushed out of the court in agony.
p. 86.9condemned = found guilty
- The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned.
p. 87.1condemned = found legally guilty
- "That evidence," he observed, "was hardly required in so glaring a case, but I am glad of it, and, indeed, none of our judges like to condemn a criminal upon circumstantial evidence, be it ever so decisive."
p. 87.3condemn = legally find guilty and punish
- Do you also join with my enemies to crush me, to condemn me as a murderer?
p. 88.2condemn = find guilty and punish
- Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was. He threatened excommunication and hell fire in my last moments if I continued obdurate.
p. 88.4condemned = found legally guilty
- I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.
p. 89.1
- William and Justine were assassinated, and the murderer escapes; he walks about the world free, and perhaps respected. But even if I were condemned to suffer on the scaffold for the same crimes, I would not change places with such a wretch.
p. 96.4condemned = legally sentenced (to punishment)
- The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
p. 103.9condemned = found legally guilty
- He was tried and condemned to death.
p. 125.7condemned = legally sentenced (to punishment)
- The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.
p. 125.8condemnation = being found legally guilty
- They remained confined for five months before the trial took place, the result of which deprived them of their fortune and condemned them to a perpetual exile from their native country.
p. 128.6condemned = forced (into an undesired situation)
- I also am unfortunate; I and my family have been condemned, although innocent; judge, therefore, if I do not feel for your misfortunes.
p. 137.2condemned = found legally guilty
- Shall I respect man when he condemns me?
p. 147.9condemns = forces into a bad situation
Definitions:
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(1)
(condemn as in: She condemned their plan) express strong criticism
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(2)
(condemn as in: was condemned to life in prison) force into an undesired activity or situation -- such as to legally sentence someone to punishment
or:
find guilty -- especially in court (and sometimes to death)
or:
provide the means of finding guilty -
(3)
(condemn as in: condemned the building) an official government finding that a building is not suitable to be occupied