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Definition of Condemnable
1. Adjective. Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure. "Adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
Similar to: Wrong
Derivative terms: Reprehend, Reprehensibility
Definition of Condemnable
1. Adjective. Deserving of condemnation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Condemnable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Condemnable
Literary usage of Condemnable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"From this point of view, Christ's real ious man which, examined by God's severe
standard, would not be condemnable" (Ibid., Ill, 14, 11). ..."
2. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edvard Westermarck (1908)
"... by the victim appears from the fact that a lie or breach of faith is held more
condemnable in proportion to the magnitude of the harm caused by it. ..."
3. Village Life in Egypt: With Sketches of the Saïd by Bayle St. John (1853)
"—Rates of Freight — The Project condemnable — Regulations that have been laid
down — Mode of Supplying Rations — Deserters — Do Railways make Traffic ? ..."
4. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Raphael Semmes (1864)
"In either case the property is condemnable, being shipped by the house of trade
in the enemy's ... condemnable ..."
5. Lion edited by Richard Carlile (1828)
"It is asserted to be damnable, which, in more common phrase, means condemnable.
It is condemnable, in the eye of the Protestant ; not condemnable, ..."
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