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say it: kahn-duhm-NAY-shuhn
condemnation is a noun meaning "an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable". It carries 5 recorded senses.
an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable
“his uncompromising condemnation of racism”
(law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building)
law
an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
the condition of being strongly disapproved of
“he deserved nothing but condemnation”
(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
“the conviction came as no surprise”
criminal law
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for condemnation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.