Difference between Condemned and Guilty

What is the difference between Condemned and Guilty?

Condemned as a noun is a person sentenced to death. while Guilty as a noun is a plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.

Condemned

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person sentenced to death.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally. Having been sharply scolded. Officially marked uninhabitable.

Example sentence: The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Guilty

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Responsible for a dishonest act.Judged to have committed a crime.Having a sense of guiltBlameworthy.

Example sentence: Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

We hope you now know whether to use Condemned or Guilty in your sentence.

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