judgment

English

/ˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt/

noun
Definitions
  • 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
  • The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
  • (legal) 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.
  • (theology) The final award; the last sentence.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English juggement borrowed from Old French jugement derived from Latin iūdicāmentum, iūdicō (I judge, pass judgement upon, pass judgement, judge, decide, conclude, determine).

Origin

Latin

iūdicō

Gloss

I judge, pass judgement upon, pass judgement, judge, decide, conclude, determine

Concept
Semantic Field

Law

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

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