Condemnation \Con"dem*na"tion\, n. [L. condemnatio.]

1. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.

In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. --Paley.

2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.

A legal and judicial condemnation. --Paley.

Whose condemnation is pronounced. --Shak.

3. The state of being condemned.

His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. --W. Irving.

4. The ground or reason of condemning.

This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. --John iii. 19.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)