All 12 Uses
condemn
in
Billy Budd
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- ...had been already tried by a summary court and condemned to death;
Chpt 23 *condemned = legally sentenced someone to punishment
- Which appeal caused but a strange dumb gesturing and gurgling in Billy; amazement at such an accusation so suddenly sprung on inexperienced nonage; this, and, it may be, horror of the accuser, serving to bring out his lurking defect and in this instance for the time intensifying it into a convulsed tongue-tie; while the intent head and entire form straining forward in an agony of ineffectual eagerness to obey the injunction to speak and defend himself, gave an expression to the face like that of a condemned Vestal priestess in the moment of being buried alive, and in the first struggle against suffocation.†
Chpt 19
- For suppose condemnation to follow these present proceedings.†
Chpt 21
- Would it be so much we ourselves that would condemn as it would be martial law operating through us?†
Chpt 21
- We must do; and one of two things must we do—condemn or let go.†
Chpt 21
- It would have been in consonance with the spirit of Captain Vere should he on this occasion have concealed nothing from the condemned one—should he indeed have frankly disclosed to him the part he himself had played in bringing about the decision, at the same time revealing his actuating motives.†
Chpt 22
- That the condemned one suffered less than he who mainly had effected the condemnation was apparently indicated by the former's exclamation in the scene soon perforce to be touched upon.†
Chpt 22
- That the condemned one suffered less than he who mainly had effected the condemnation was apparently indicated by the former's exclamation in the scene soon perforce to be touched upon.†
Chpt 22 *
- Between the entrance into the cabin of him who never left it alive, and him who when he did leave it left it as one condemned to die; between this and the closeted interview just given, less than an hour and a half had elapsed.†
Chpt 23
- For similar cause, all communication between Captain Vere and the condemned one ended with the closeted interview already given, the latter being now surrendered to the ordinary routine preliminary to the end.†
Chpt 23
- Brief speech indeed he had with the condemned one, but the genuine Gospel was less on his tongue than in his aspect and manner towards him.†
Chpt 25
- That these were not the accents of remorse, would seem clear from what the attendant said to the Indomitable's senior officer of marines who, as the most reluctant to condemn of the members of the drum-head court, too well knew, tho' here he kept the knowledge to himself, who Billy Budd was.†
Chpt 28
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.