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Rose Bowl Posted 16 years ago
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Shouldn't it be punishment?
The duty of burning pamphlets outside Westminster Hall also devolved upon the hangman, apparently as a way of performing, publicly, the condemnation of seditious tracts.
con·dem·na·tion
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n
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m-n
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n.
1.
a. The act of condemning.
b. The state of being condemned.
2. Severe reproof; strong censure.
3. A reason or occasion for condemning.
con·demn
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n-d
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tr.v. con·demned, con·demn·ing, con·demns
1. To express strong disapproval of: condemned the needless waste of food.
2. To pronounce judgment against; sentence: condemned the felons to prison.
3. To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order: condemn an old building.
4. To lend credence to or provide evidence for an adverse judgment against: were condemned by their actions.
5. Law To appropriate (property) for public use.
I don't think the hangman is rebuking the pamphlets, nor pronouncing a judgment against someone by burning those pamphlets as demamded by the legal authority. Shouldn't it be punishment instead?
con·dem·na·tion
(k
ndm-nshn)n.
1.
a. The act of condemning.
b. The state of being condemned.
2. Severe reproof; strong censure.
3. A reason or occasion for condemning.
con·demn
(k
n-dm)tr.v. con·demned, con·demn·ing, con·demns
1. To express strong disapproval of: condemned the needless waste of food.
2. To pronounce judgment against; sentence: condemned the felons to prison.
3. To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order: condemn an old building.
4. To lend credence to or provide evidence for an adverse judgment against: were condemned by their actions.
5. Law To appropriate (property) for public use.
I don't think the hangman is rebuking the pamphlets, nor pronouncing a judgment against someone by burning those pamphlets as demamded by the legal authority. Shouldn't it be punishment instead?
Top answer
That is a pretty fine distinction you have noticed. Good work! Technically, the hangman was not performing a public condemnation of seditious tracts.
- That is a pretty fine distinction you have noticed.
- Good work!
- Technically, the hangman was not performing a public condemnation of seditious tracts.
- I say this because it is the officials who have condemned the tracts and the hangman who, as part of his duties, burned the tracts in public.
- It is conceivable that the hangman went around taking tracts away from citizens and burning them on the spot, acting, as it were, as judge and jury.
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That is a pretty fine distinction you have noticed. Good work!
Technically, the hangman was not performing a public condemnation of seditious tracts. I say this because it is the officials who have condemned the tracts and the hangman who, as part of his duties, burned the tracts in public. It is conceivable that the hangman went around taking tracts away from citizens and burning them o
Technically, the hangman was not performing a public condemnation of seditious tracts. I say this because it is the officials who have condemned the tracts and the hangman who, as part of his duties, burned the tracts in public. It is conceivable that the hangman went around taking tracts away from citizens and burning them o
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Hi,
Shouldn't it be punishment instead?
As an additional comment, you can't punish a tract. You punish a person, eg the writer of the tract.
Best wishes, Clive
Shouldn't it be punishment instead?
As an additional comment, you can't punish a tract. You punish a person, eg the writer of the tract.
Best wishes, Clive
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The public burning was a demonstration of the condemnation of seditious tracts.
Did you mean "associated with" by "of"? If that's the case, I'd agree that this sentence is correct.
Thank you for your help.
Did you mean "associated with" by "of"? If that's the case, I'd agree that this sentence is correct.
Thank you for your help.
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