self-condemned

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ condemned.

Adjective

self-condemned (comparative more self-condemned, superlative most self-condemned)

  1. Condemned by one's own words, behaviour etc. [from 17th c.]
    • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 113:
      Disappointing, humbled, and self-condemned, in broken accents, and with a faultering tongue, he was withdrawing, without having the assurance once to pronounce the name of Laura […] .
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