Meaning

The act of judging..

Definitions by Sense

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.
3. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
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.
5. (theology) The final award; the last sentence.

Example Sentences

The key to the situation was judgment of the role the railways could play in modern times.

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.

He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.

[T]he person presented shall be tried and examined by the judgment of learned men of the church; […]

We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.

She in my judgment was as fair as you.

Word Forms

• judgments
• judgement
• iugement
• iudgement
• iudgment
• iudgemente
• iudgmente

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Use judgment when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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