self-condemnedadj.

1615 S. Ward Coal from Altar 19 I beare many deuout Papists witnesse (though I feare the learnedst of them be selfe condemned) that they haue this zeale perswading themselues, they doe God best seruice, when they please the diuell most in their will-worship.

1623 N. Rogers Strange Vineyard 6 Had he knowne on whom the sentence would haue light, it should not haue beene so heauie; but now he is selfe-condemned.

1706 Rehearsal 30 Mar. in C. Leslie View of Times (1708) I The Whiggs here out-Witted themselves! They shou'd have let their Ashes Rest. For this makes them now Self-Condemn'd.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vii. 131 Which we cannot violate without being Self-condemned.

1836 H. Taylor Statesman xvii. 126 In adopting it [sc. a course of conduct] they stand self-condemned without reason.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. 90 Self-condemned in his wretchedness.

1885 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Apr. 693/1 The doctor is self-condemned, by formerly signing and now refusing to sign.

1917 G. H. Reid My Reminisc. xxiii. 267 My view was that the man who lifted a finger to indicate his own wishes or qualifications for such an office stood self-condemned.

1960 New Scientist 3 Mar. 551/3 The routing of self-condemned traffic offenders to an impartial and infallible fine collector.

2008 Indian Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 69 141 Any kind of economy which exploits people and concentrates wealth in a few hands stands self-condemned.

1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants 216 Obstinately and Self-condemnedly maintaining inconsisting Things with the Faith.