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1581 A. Anderson Shield of Safetie sig. R.j^v All such as wallow in wicked lyfe and false Religion, doe hate Christ in hys Gospell to this present daye, but to their vtter ruine and selfe condemnation.

1650 Mercurius Politicus No. 18. 294 Without manifest self-condemnation they cannot dispute, or deny the Truth of this Assertion.

1660 T. Pierce Impartial Inq. Nature Sin 132 For not remembring in his Epistle, what he had written in his Book, he hath rail'd it out against me, to no better purpose, then to his own self-condemnation.

1703 J. Hay (title) Self-Condemnation: or the author of the second edition of the Debate in the Shop, condemned out of his own mouth.

1706 Rehearsal 30 Mar. in C. Leslie View of Times (1708) I. Their Self-Condemnation in Denying the Rye-House-Conspiracy.

1819 J. Milner End Relig. Controv. (ed. 2) ii. xxv. 103 Was there ever a more glaring instance of inconsistency and self-condemnation among rational beings!

1842 G. Davies Sequel Hist. Scarborough Lancasterian Schools I. ix. 55 But nothing daunted at this detection and self-condemnation, it seems to his morbid reasoning to afford greater latitude for speculation and romance.

1947 Amarillo (Texas) Globe 6 Nov. 2/1 Is the school so sacrosanct that it is above inspection and betterment by qualified persons? Resistance by refusal, evasion, and subterfuge by state officials is considered self-condemnation.

1986 Times 15 Dec. 28 There was an equal show of self-condemnation at the other end when Chaudhry..put a shot horribly wide of an open goal.

2011 Jrnl. Relig. & Health 50 197 Whatever the manifest motivations or rationalizations were for the Nazis to order the making of this staged documentary, it stands, by their own hand, as an inescapable act of self-condemnation.

1591 A. Fraunce Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel sig. C2^v Euery sight, each sound, iust accusation offreth, And self-wounding sowle, self-condemnation vrgeth.

1639 R. Abbot Young-mans Warning-peece (new ed.) 98 One of them had a debauched and wicked life. God saw it, and thrust him downe to the gates of hell... Yet withall hee had such remorse, confession, selfe condemnation, desire of others good, [etc.].

1650 I. Ambrose Media 63 O then let us prevent this doom, and this execution, by our own Judgement and Self-condemnation.

1738 tr. D. Vairasse d'Allais Hist. Sevarambians ii. 76 That eternal Remorse which must be the Source of perpetual Horror and Self-condemnation to her.

1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 31 It must have produced not only Self-conviction, but Self-condemnation.

1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish iv. 26 Shame..and abasement and self-condemnation.

1898 Cosmopolitan Aug. 398/1 Then, in self-condemnation, he sought to call up before his mental vision the picture of Frances.

1933 Boys' Life Jan. 38/3 Jim, getting to his feet, felt an agony of despair and self-condemnation at the realization that his last attempted individual play had perhaps completely ruined whatever slight chance still remained.

1970 Life 1 May 44/3 They also learn that for all their misery and self-condemnation, they are just like a lot of other people.

2007 Third Way Winter 14/2 He spent a year in miserable self-condemnation, until he found the two causes that he could make his lifetime's mission.