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Etymology

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un- +‎ condemn

Verb

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uncondemn (third-person singular simple present uncondemns, present participle uncondemning, simple past and past participle uncondemned)

  1. (transitive, rare) To reverse the condemnation of; to condemn no longer.
    • 1997, Lewis Gannett, Magazine Beach, page 56:
      “The building inspector,” Selma explained to James, “is going to uncondemn us next month. We think.”
    • 2017, Kiara Windrider, Ilahinoor:
      What I was clearly shown was that this belief in condemnation was lodged deep in the subconscious fields of humanity, but that it is easy now to uncondemn ourselves.