Condemn vs. Sentence — What's the Difference?

Express complete disapproval of; censure

A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb.

Sentence (someone) to a particular punishment, especially death

The penalty imposed by a law court or other authority upon someone found guilty of a crime or other offense.

To express strong disapproval of

(Archaic) A maxim.

To pronounce judgment against; sentence

(Obsolete) An opinion, especially one given formally after deliberation.

To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order

To impose a sentence on (a criminal defendant found guilty, for example).

To force (someone) to experience, endure, or do something

(dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

To lend credence to or provide evidence for an adverse judgment against

The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

(Law) To appropriate (property) for public use.

A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

(obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.

(transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.

(transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence

(logic) A formula with no free variables.

(transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.

(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

(transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.

(transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.

(obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.

(transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.

A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.

To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.

(transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.

To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.

To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.

(obsolete) To utter sententiously.

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

Sense; meaning; significance.

To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.

An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; - with to before the penalty.

A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

To amerce or fine; - with in before the penalty.

In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

Express strong disapproval of;

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

Declare or judge unfit;

To decree or announce as a sentence.

Compel or force into a particular state or activity;

To utter sententiously.

Demonstrate the guilt of (someone);

A string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language;

Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed;

The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;

Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;