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Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers
Section IV. Moral Affections
5. Institutions

971. Condemnation.

   NOUN:CONDEMNATION, conviction, judgment, penalty, sentence; proscription, damnation; death warrant.
  attainder, attainture, attaintment.
   VERB:CONDEMN, convict, cast [obs. or dial.], bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit.
  disapprove [See Disapprobation]; accuse [See Accusation].
  stand condemned, be convicted.
   ADJECTIVE:CONDEMNATORY, damnatory; condemned &c. v.; nonsuited (failure) [See Failure]; self-convicted.
   QUOTATIONS:
  1. Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.
  2. Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved.—Paradise Lost
  3. Beyond the infinite and boundless reach Of mercy.—King John
  4. Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.—Hawthorne