judgment

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Alternative forms

• judgement

Etymology

From Old French jugement.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jŭj'mənt, IPA: /ˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt/, SAMPA: /"dZVdZm@nt/

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Noun

judgment (plural judgments)

1. The act of judging.
2. 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.

3. 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.

4. (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.

5. (theology) The final award; the last sentence.

Usage notes

See Judgment: Spelling for discussion of spelling usage of judgment versus judgement. Briefly, without the -e is preferred in law globally, and in American English, while with the -e is preferred in British English.

Like abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment, judgment is sometimes written with English spellings in American English, as judgement (respectively, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement).

Derived terms

arrest of judgment judgment call judgment day judgment debt judgment hall

judgment hour judgment of God judgment seat judgment summons judgment throne

Translations

act of judging

Catalan: judici (ca) Ewe: ʋɔnudɔdrɔ̃ n. French: jugement (fr) Greek: κρίση (el) (krísi) f. Italian: giuizio (it)

Polish: osądzanie (pl) n. Portuguese: juízo (pt) m., julgamento (pt) m. Swahili: hesabu (sw)

power or faculty

Greek: κρίση (el) (krísi) f. Polish: rozsądek (pl) m., rozeznanie (pl) n., wyczucie (pl) n.

Portuguese: juízo (pt) m. Swahili: hesabu (sw)

conclusion or result of judging

Greek: κρίση (el) (krísi) f. Polish: osąd (pl) m., (old fashioned) sąd (pl) m.

Portuguese: juízo (pt) m. Swahili: hesabu (sw)

(law) act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice

Estonian: lahend (et) Greek: κρίση (el) (krísi) f., απόφαση (el) (apófasi) f.

Polish: posŧępowanie (pl) n., proces (pl) m. Swahili: hesabu (sw)

(theology) final award; the last sentence

Greek: κρίση (el) (krísi) f. Portuguese: juízo (pt) m.

Swahili: hesabu (sw)

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Czech: úsudek m. (non-legal), rozsudek m. Esperanto: juĝo Ewe: ʋɔnudɔdrɔ̃ (ee) French: jugement (fr) m. Old French: jugement m. Middle French: iugement m. Greek: κρίση (el) (krísi) f.

Old Provençal: jujament Romanian: judecată (ro) Scots: juidgement Spanish: juicio (es) m.

References

• judgment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913