Cōn'dem-nā'tion, n.

n. [Lat. condemnatio.]

1. The act of condemning; the judicial act of declaring guilty, and dooming to punishment. “A legal and judicial condemnation.” Paley.
2. The state of being condemned.

His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving. 3. The cause or reason of a sentence of condemnation. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19.