condemning meaning: definition, quotations

condemning

adj

Synonym of condemnatory.

Of course, the mites of sympathy, of friendly feelings towards Denmark which are mingled with your condemning judgments, are withheld by the German papers; but, seriously speaking, I cannot see that they do anything but render your concluding sentences the more condemning.1864, Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga, The Invasion of Denmark in 1864 - Volume 1, page 383:
Ah, my Brethren, that is a very condemning thing, to sin against a tender conscience.1871, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 16: 1870, page 138:

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Ironic remarks were considered more condemning than literal remarks, and direct remarks were considered more condemning than indirect ones, but these effects were independent and did not influence one another.2007, Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston, Irony in Language and Thought, page 331:

noun

condemnation

Thy Servant knew that she was beloved of thee, and that she lay in thy bosome from a child, and there she might have lived without the condemnings or reproaches of men, or of this Generation […]1654, Anna Trapnell, The Cry of a Stone: