All 7 Uses of
condemn
in
Mansfield Park
- You can have been personally acquainted with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusively.
Chpt 11 (definition 1) *condemn = criticize
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or (smiling) of something else.
Chpt 11 (definition 1)condemned = strongly criticized
- But reflection brought better feelings, and shewed her that Mrs. Grant was entitled to respect, which could never have belonged to her; and that, had she received even the greatest, she could never have been easy in joining a scheme which, considering only her uncle, she must condemn altogether.
Chpt 17 (definition 1)condemn = criticize
- Mr. Yates might consider it only as a vexatious interruption for the evening, and Mr. Rushworth might imagine it a blessing; but every other heart was sinking under some degree of self-condemnation or undefined alarm, every other heart was suggesting, "What will become of us? what is to be done now?"
Chpt 19 (definition 1)condemnation = strong criticism
- Had his choice been less unexceptionable, I should have condemned his persevering.
Chpt 33 (definition 1)condemned = strongly criticized
- Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
Chpt 44 (definition 2) *condemn = force into an undesired situation
- To be finding herself, perhaps within three days, transported to Mansfield, was an image of the greatest felicity, but it would have been a material drawback to be owing such felicity to persons in whose feelings and conduct, at the present moment, she saw so much to condemn: the sister's feelings, the brother's conduct, her cold-hearted ambition, his thoughtless vanity.
Chpt 45 (definition 1)condemn = criticize
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