The difference between Condemn and Convict
When used as verbs, condemn means to strongly criticise or denounce, whereas convict means as a result of legal proceedings, of a crime, of charges, on charges of something.
Convict is also noun with the meaning: a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
check bellow for the other definitions of Condemn and Convict
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Condemn as a verb (transitive):
To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
Examples:
"The president condemned the terrorists."
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Condemn as a verb (transitive):
To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
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Condemn as a verb (transitive):
To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
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Condemn as a verb (transitive):
To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
Examples:
"The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire."
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Condemn as a verb (transitive):
To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
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Condemn as a verb (transitive):
To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
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Condemn as a verb (transitive):
To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
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Condemn as a verb (transitive, legal):
To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
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Convict as a verb (transitive):
to find guilty as a result of legal proceedings, of a crime, of charges, on charges of something informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act
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Convict as a verb (esp. religious):
to convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something)
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Convict as a noun (legal):
A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
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Convict as a noun:
A person deported to a penal colony.
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Convict as a noun:
The convict cichlid (), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
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Convict as a noun:
A common name for the sheepshead (), owing to its black and gray stripes.