judgment
nounEtymology
From Middle English juggement, borrowed from Old French jugement, from Late Latin iūdicāmentum, from Latin iūdicō. Partially displaced doom. By surface analysis, judge + -ment.
- derived from iūdicō
- derived from iūdicāmentum
- derived from jugement
- inherited from juggement
Definitions
The act of judging.
- The key to the situation was judgment of the role the railways could play in modern times.
The power or faculty of performing such operations
The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
- a man of judgment / a man of good judgment
- a politician without judgment
- Hermia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
The conclusion or result of judging
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
- She in my judgment was as fair as you.
- Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy […]
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The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice
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.
- In judgments between the Rich and the Poor: it is not to be considered what the poor man needs, but what is his own
- Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.
The final award
The final award; the last sentence.
The neighborhood
Derived
against one's better judgment, age of judgment, arrest of judgment, cloud one's judgement, Day of Judgment, declaratory judgment, default judgment, forejudgment, judgmental, judgment call, judgment day, judgment debt, judgment hall, judgment hour, judgmentless, judgment of God, judgment of Solomon, judgment proof, judgment seat, judgment summons, judgment throne, misjudgment, nonjudgment, pass judgement, pass judgment, post-judgment, postjudgment, prejudgment, private judgment, reasons for judgment, self-judgment, sit in judgement, sit in judgment, snap judgment, summary judgment, value judgment
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at judgment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at judgment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at judgment
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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