Do we say condemn or condone

condemn 1076 occurrences

Shame on all critics that condemn MOZART as a fogy and BACH as a nuisance.

Nearly every boy in the school saw clearly that he was both unworthy and unfitted to fulfil the duties of a prefect, but the peculiar circumstances under which he had, as "Rats" put it, been given "notice to quit," caused a large number of his schoolfellows to side with him, and condemn the action of the captain.

It may, however, be biassed by the tone absorbed from the environment even in childhood, as when the mother makes more of table etiquette than of kindness, and the child, instead of condemning Jacob's refusal to feed his hungry brother with the red pottage, as all natural children do condemn, says: "No, Esau shouldn't have got it, 'cause he asked for it.

Condemn not.

For it is contrary to the divine justice to condemn those who acknowledge a God, and from their religion practise the laws of justice, which consist in shunning evils because they are contrary to God, and in doing what is good because it is agreeable to God.

Being questioned why they did so, when all had done alike, they replied that they regard all from their purpose, intention, or end, and distinguish accordingly; and that therefore they excuse or condemn those whom the end either excuses or condemns, since an end of good influences all in heaven, and an end of evil all in hell. 528.

I am seigneur there, and can try, condemn, and execute.

Syndicalists condemn agreements as a device of the enemy.

Their own acts condemn them.

"That alone seems enough to condemn your theory, M. le General.

Early rising then was strictly enforced, as the following extract from one of his letters will show: I am not so anxious as usual to begin my personal history, as the first thing I have to record is a very sad incident, namely, my missing morning chapel; before, however, you condemn me, you must hear how accidental it was.

Let none condemn her.

That Clubso equal fates condemn They thought to catch, has now catch'd them.

Condemn themdamn themhiss them, if you will Their author is your grateful servant still!

"Condemn the book, for not being a geography;" or,"because it is not a geography.

"I, nor your plan, nor book condemn; But why your name?

Harrison cites a good example; pronounces it elliptical; and scarcely forbears to condemn it as bad English: "In the following sentence, the relative pronoun is three times omitted:'Is there a God to swear by, and is there none to believe in, none to trust to?'Letters and Essays, Anonymous.

Do we condemn second marriages?

The farmer considers him as the very ringleader of mischief, and uses all means he can invent for his destruction; the friend of the singing-birds bears him a grudge as the destroyer of their eggs and young; and even the moralist is disposed to condemn him for his cunning and dissimulation.

* "'And if you condemn a bow of ribbon for a lady, monsieur, you would necessarily disapprove of a thing like this for a gentleman?' holding up my bright little chainlet of silk and gold.

[Footnote 1: R. Rosetti, Pentru ce s-au r[)a]sculat [t'][)a]ranii, 1907, p. 600] However difficult his task, Prince Carol never deviated from the strictly constitutional path: his opponents were free to condemn the prince's opinions; he never gave them the chance of questioning his integrity.

" "But, father," said I, "suppose he asks of me that which might condemn one who has trusted me, what am I to say?" "Tut, boy," said my father, impatiently, "you mean young Michael Texel.

All that she wanted was to see him; she besought him not to condemn her irrevocably.

Believers in the glut theory usually condemn efforts to encourage frugality among the masses, calling it the "fallacy of saving."]

He took notice of the extraordinary opposition which had been made to the bill then before them, and which he believed every gentleman, who had a proper feeling of humanity, would condemn.

condone 59 occurrences

<Excuse, pardon, forgive, condone.

It is hardly to be expected that war will cease from the earth this side of the millennium; but women will surely only, condone it when urged by some tremendous need or enthusiasm; they will not rejoiceas men sometimes doin the mere lust of domination and violence.

Judging Beth by the common standard of girls of her age, both failings and faults were more imaginary than real; yet it was her characteristic to suspect and despise in herself such weaknesses as others would condone, or at least regard leniently.

He, Racey, was not one to condone either murder or injustice.

I would not condone the waywardness and vices of Byron, or weaken the eternal distinctions between right and wrong.

It was hoped that Russia might be manoeuvred into a position where autocracy would rather abandon the Slav cause than seem to condone assassination; and it was confidently believed that Britain would hold aloof from a quarrel whose origin was so questionable.

V. forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at &c (neglect) 460; bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront.

He is polite and soft-spoken, and disposed to irony rather than denunciation, ready to admire cuteness and condone deception.

"If you condone this," he told himself, "you might condone anything.

"If you condone this," he told himself, "you might condone anything.

And yet,yet there had been nothing which he had not dared to own to his wife in the secrecy of their mutual confidence, and which, in secret, she had not been able to condone without a moment's hesitation.

What I remember of it now are those two odious chevillesmarchait et respirait, and Astarté fille de l'onde amère; nor does the fact that amère rhymes with mère condone the offence, although it proves that even Musset felt that perhaps the richness of the rhyme might render tolerable the intolerable.

No doubt this devotion brought its own reward; but we are exacting for our idols and do not care to have even a generous error to condone, and therefore we are glad to know that, great as his reward was, it was no greater than was merited by the most perfect love that ever crowned a woman's life."

"I have schooled myself to forgive him," Gilbert went on to say, "for I know that he loves herand that must needs condone my wrongs.

"To forgive, to condone, is always commendable in man; but, madam, there is a higher duty men owe to womanhoodto chaste and trusting womanhood, incapable of defending itself from the wiles and schemes which ever are waiting to ensnare it.

But as long as sins do not menace health or prosperity or comfort, we easily and glibly condone them.

We must be careful not to condone his faults in the light of his poetical genius; but for all that, if Shelley had never written a line of his exquisite poetry, I cannot help feeling that if one had known him, one would have felt the same eager regard for him.

Indeed they often carried this feeling so far as to make them condone gross excesses, rather than insist upon the exercise of even needful authority.

They soon grew to regard all the Indians with equal suspicion, and they were so goaded by the blows which they could not return that they were ready to take vengeance upon any one with a red skin, or at least to condone such vengeance when taken.

The pains which he would take with even the most uncongenial and unpromising men, who somehow had come in his way, and seemed thrown on his charge, the patience with which he would bear and condone their follies and even worse, were not to be told, for, indeed, few knew what they were.

If virginal purity were in fact the hypocritical convention which it is to some extent possible to condone in the Aminta, but which becomes wholly loathsome in the work of Fletcher, the sooner it disappeared from the region of practical ethics the better for the moral health of humanity.

What I remember of it now are those two odious chevillesmarchait et respirait, and Astarté fille de l'onde amère; nor does the fact that amère rhymes with mère condone the offence, although it proves that even Musset felt that perhaps the richness of the rhyme might render tolerable the intolerable.

The first place is occupied by Antonio Rojas, Archbishop of Granada, who is your kinsman; he is a veritable Cato, unable to condone his own offences or those of his relatives.

I resolved that I would condone the past, and go forth penniless, if this were exacted in exchange for liberty at the end of a month and a half from this time.

As the wife of Gregory, I should be, of course, a forçat for life, walking abroad with the concealed brand and manacle, afraid and ashamed to complain and acknowledge my condition, and willing to condone every thing.

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