Verb
To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe church is a hospital, and not a courtroom, for souls. She does not condemn on behalf of sins, but grants remission of sins. John Chrysostom
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. Fidel Castro
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. Bertrand Russell
Everybody joins to blame or condemn a child who overthrows the pot of soup. Nigerian Proverb
If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself. Nigerian Proverb
Condemn a man within earshot; praise him at a distance. Yugoslav Proverb