The act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product)

Usage examples of condemnation.

His name is worth remembering, for to this Richard Martin belongs the honour of being one of the first men in any land who attempted to secure some repression of cruelty to animals through the condemnation of the law.

To the London Lancet the cause of humaneness to animals is also indebted, for its repeated condemnation of the cruelties of vivisection.

So far as they are performed upon animals made absolutely unconscious to any senstation of pain, it is difficult to suggest a condemnation that does not equally apply to the killing of animals for food or raiment.

Tresifian and the other judges, which a parliament had annulled, but which a new parliament and new judges had approved, here received a second condemnation.

Sulpicius Severusi an Aquitanian by birth, speaks of the trial, condemnation and punishment of the Priscillian heretics by the secular Court at Treves in the year 389.

This class of customs has often, especially in the first millennium of our era, been the object of condemnations by ecclesiastics, and represents the old paganism which Christianity failed to extinguish.

Two or three months afterward the Lancet again expressed its condemnation of experiments made for the demonstration of known facts.

America, under fifty years of age, have ever heard that half a century ago, the feeling of the medical profession, in the English-speaking world was almost unanimous in disapproval and condemnation of methods and of experiments which now pass without notice, and uncondemned.

It is a significant fact, that every writer who attempts to defend or to excuse the experiments here described and others of the same type, always evades the principal reason for their condemnation.

In a pamphlet published during the closing years of the last century by the American Humane Association, there appeared a strong condemnation of experiments made by a Dr.

There was no encouragement for either judoka or karateka, and no condemnation for the tactics employed.

That the war maids arranged it because of his outspoken condemnation of their chosen way of life.

The effect of the Manichaean condemnation of the body is at once to reduce this impossible skyscraper to less than half its original height.

Gytha had not realised how thin a veneer of Christianity overlay the paganism of many of the Novgorodians, but it was evident now in the great numbers who gathered to hear the Wonderworker and cheer him on to greater claims and more ferocious condemnations, prophesying terrible calamities unless the people obeyed him, and growing daily wilder and more extravagant in his foretellings and claims.

In any young writer, would not such offences against veracity invite the severest condemnation?