Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
judgment .
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- noun Alternative form of
judgment .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- noun (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- noun an opinion formed by judging something
- noun the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- noun the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- noun the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- noun the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
Etymologies
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Examples
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The reason why parents are to be consulted is, because they deliberate from judgement, knowledge, and love; from _judgement_, because they are in an advanced age, which excels in judgement, and discerns what is suitable and unsuitable: from _knowledge_, in respect to both the suitor and their daughter; in respect to the suitor they procure information, and in respect to their daughter they already know; wherefore they conclude respecting both with united discernment: from
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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And Firefox doesn't believe judgement is a word, either!
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Being impartial in judgement is a very important principle.
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Maybe his judgement is as poor as his eyesight ...
Stark endorses Obama 2008
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If his judgement is as poor for other things as it is for his choice of friends, maybe we should question his ability to be President.
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Of course, he also got giddy that the dow was up to 9150 a few weeks ago (seen it today?), so his judgement is a little suspect.
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To question my judgement is his right; to question my commitment to effective central government is unacceptable.
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Of course, all this talk of "judgement" is code for "political agreement."
THE NEWS BLOG 2005
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Absent full information about the person and the situation, our judgement is impaired.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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Any written judgement is also swiftly posted on the Internet and dissected by one expert or another into smithereens.
Global Voices in English » Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial 2009
uselessness commented on the word judgement
Bad spelling! Drop and give me twenty!
February 8, 2007