judgment
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From Old French jugement.
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judgment (plural judgments)
- The act of judging.
- The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
- Psalms 72:2 (King James Version).
- He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.
- Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, I-i
- Hermia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
- Psalms 72:2 (King James Version).
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
- Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, IV-iv
- She in my judgment was as fair as you.
- Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, IV-iv
- (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- Jeremy Taylor.
- In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own.
- Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, IV-i
- Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.
- Jeremy Taylor.
- (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
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Spelling: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are sometimes written with English spellings in American English: judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement and lodgement.
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act of judging
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(law) act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice
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[edit] References
- judgment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

