condemnatory

Examples of condemnation

condemnation
This confident, swingeing condemnation in part reflected the disarray, fragmentation, and anxieties of the evangelical movement as a whole by the 1890s.
Mercantilist economic doctrines too enabled the condemnation of the 'indolent' including 'savages'.
Undercurrents of such relationships led to exaggerated fears and a condemnation of any hint of extra-marital inclinations.
These excursions into political and economic theory received equal doses of praise and condemnation from critics and readers.
Neither had his condemnation of outward religious signs always been based in principle.
No wonder the church ignored, or even repudiated, its immemorial condemnation of usurious finance.
If a person cannot properly be blamed for what she has done, then this fact makes condemnation inappropriate.
Other evils, especially those fashioned by human hands, demand our condemnation, unyielding opposition, and vigorous efforts at prevention and reparation.
The final (missing) step is the premise that the criminal law is just a vehicle for moral condemnation.
The only subject explicitly denounced is astrology: the author devotes a long paragraph to its condemnation.
He saved the merchant from religious condemnation by depicting him as a man of social utility and virtue : a good citizen.
Now, of course many crimes are moral wrongs, and punishment expresses condemnation.
Their condemnation was part of widespread class concerns about natural versus artificial beauty.
Early modern accounts reflect both condemnation and praise, as individual reactions to sati were conditioned by personal experience.
But none of this should be read as a condemnation of those chapters not specifically mentioned here.
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Collocations withcondemnation

condemnation

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blanket condemnation
When people have successes, it is not particularly encouraging to them to get the kind of blanketcondemnation which is all too often made.
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