\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.
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