Condemn vs Dispraise - What's the difference?
condemn | dispraise |
To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.
To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain
To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
(legal) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
*:They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
*1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
*:Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
*1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 157:
*:He became familiar with that habit of mind which dispraises what it most envies and admires: with that habit of mind which desires only what it cannot have.
As verbs the difference between condemn and dispraise
is that condemn is to confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon while dispraise is to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.condemn
English
Verb
(en verb)- The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
- The president condemns the terrorist.
- The president condemns the terrorist attacks.