All 5 Uses
condemn
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
(Edited)
- Expecting to learn that he was condemned to execution, he was told something else: A Japanese navy ship was coming to Kwajalein, and he was going to be put on it and taken to a POW camp in Yokohama, Japan.
p. 188.4condemned = legally sentenced (to punishment)
- Now he was condemned to crawl through the filth of a pig's sty, picking up feces with his bare hands and cramming handfuls of the animal's feed into his mouth to save himself from starving to death.
p. 286.7 *condemned = forced into an undesired situation
- When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw no one but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
p. 372.9condemned = sentenced to death
- And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
p. 372.9condemn = sentence to death
- And your own words, and your own thoughts, and your own deeds, are going to condemn you as you stand before God on that day.
p. 373.4condemn = find guilty
Definitions:
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(condemn as in: She condemned their plan) express strong criticism
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(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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(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.