All 11 Uses
condemn
in
The Crucible
(Edited)
- The Church, sharp-eyed as it must be when gods long dead are brought to life, condemned these orgies as witchcraft and interpreted them rightly, as a resurgence of the Dionysiac forces it had crushed long before.
p. 35.7condemned = strongly criticized
- PROCTOR: Why'd you let her? You heard me forbid her to go to Salem any more!
ELIZABETH: I couldn't stop her.
PROCTOR, holding back a full condemnation of her: It is a fault, it is a fault, Elizabeth—you're the mistress here, not Mary Warren.p. 52.1 *condemnation = complete disapproval - MARY WARREN: Aye, but then Judge Hathorne say, “Recite for us your commandments!”—leaning avidly toward them—and of all the ten she could not say a single one. She never knew no commandments, and they had her in a flat lie!
PROCTOR: And so condemned her?p. 58.6condemned = found legally guilty - MARY WARREN, now a little strained, seeing his stubborn doubt: Why, they must when she condemned herself.
p. 58.6condemned = proved guilty
- It is my wife you be condemning now.
p. 85.7condemning = sentencing to legal punishment
- HALE: His wife's Rebecca that were condemned this morning.
p. 86.8condemned = found legally guilty
- DANFORTH: And seventy-two condemned to hang by that signature?
p. 87.5 *condemned = sentenced (assigned legal punishment)
- HALE: Excellency, it is a natural lie to tell; I beg you, stop now before another is condemned! I may shut my conscience to it no more—private vengeance is working through this testimony!
p. 114.1condemned = sentenced to legal punishment
- Excellency, she is condemned a witch.
p. 127.8condemned = found guilty (of being)
- It is the law, for he could not be condemned a wizard without he answer the indictment, aye or nay.
p. 135.4
- Danforth, now sensing trouble, glances at John and goes to the table, and picks up a sheet—the list of condemned.
p. 140.5condemned = people found guilty and assigned legal punishment
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.