All 7 Uses
condemn
in
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
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- "It wasn't because I'd been condemned to death," he said,
Chpt 2.5 *condemned = legally sentenced (to punishment)
- This problem of a loophole obsesses me; I am always wondering if there have been cases of condemned prisoners' escaping from the implacable machinery of justice at the last moment, breaking through the police cordon, vanishing in the nick of time before the guillotine falls.†
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- For after taking much thought, calmly, I came to the conclusion that what was wrong about the guillotine was that the condemned man had no chance at all, absolutely none.†
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- So it came to this, that—against the grain, no doubt—the condemned man had to hope the apparatus was in good working order!†
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- I pointed out that the former had condemned me.†
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- All alike would be condemned to die one day; his turn, too, would come like the others'.†
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- As a condemned man himself, couldn't he grasp what I meant by that dark wind blowing from my future?†
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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) to declare someone guilty of a crime and often sentence them to punishment; or more broadly, to cause someone to be judged guilty or doomed to an unwanted fate (as when evidence condemns a suspect)
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(3)
(condemn as in: condemned the building) an official government finding that a building is not suitable to be occupied
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In law, condemn can also refer to a legal real estate procedure in which the government forces someone to sell property to the government.