Why this word is great
FORECONDEMN — [Verb] To prejudge and condemn in advance. From fore- ("before") + condemn ("to declare guilty or blameworthy"). Unlike "prejudge" (which stops at premature judgment) or "precondemn" (which lacks the temporal weight of "fore-"), to forecondemn is to sentence before the crime, to seal a verdict before the trial. It is the jury turning away before the defendant speaks, the teacher marking the paper before it is written, the crowd stoning the accused before the charge is read—a quiet, terrible efficiency, as if justice were merely a formality to be dispensed with. To forecondemn is to wield time itself as a weapon—justice inverted, its scales tipped before they are even held.