CONDEMNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does condemning mean? 

• CONDEMNING (adjective)
  The adjective CONDEMNING has 1 sense:

1. containing or imposing condemnation or censure

  Familiarity information: CONDEMNING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDEMNING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Containing or imposing condemnation or censure

Synonyms:

condemnatory; condemning

Context example:

a condemnatory decree

Similar:

inculpative; inculpatory (causing blame to be imputed to)

 Context examples 

And Jo dropped down beside the bed in a passion of penitent tears, telling all that had happened, bitterly condemning her hardness of heart, and sobbing out her gratitude for being spared the heavy punishment which might have come upon her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Reed surveyed me at times with a severe eye, but seldom addressed me: since my illness, she had drawn a more marked line of separation than ever between me and her own children; appointing me a small closet to sleep in by myself, condemning me to take my meals alone, and pass all my time in the nursery, while my cousins were constantly in the drawing-room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Their opportunity of acquaintance in the house of Mr. Pratt was a foundation for the rest, at once indisputable and alarming; and Edward's visit near Plymouth, his melancholy state of mind, his dissatisfaction at his own prospects, his uncertain behaviour towards herself, the intimate knowledge of the Miss Steeles as to Norland and their family connections, which had often surprised her, the picture, the letter, the ring, formed altogether such a body of evidence, as overcame every fear of condemning him unfairly, and established as a fact, which no partiality could set aside, his ill-treatment of herself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)