Overjudge

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To judge excessively or too harshly..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To judge excessively or too harshly.
2. A supreme or superior judge.

Example Sentences

It seems incongruous for the plaintiff to claim that the defendant should overjudge him in a matter in which he assumed to judge and to do all that he required or supposed necessary to be done in the premises, and that the defendant should be responsible for the inadequacy of what the plaintiff adjudged and did.

The most ordinary temptation of the cultivated mind is to desire to criticize too much, to overjudge, to criticize even that of which he knows nothing.

People with BPD are sometimes too interpersonally sensitive, and they overjudge situations, such as feeling that no one loves them or that people are talking about them.

But without importing into the case any extravagant conclusions, no doubt need be entertained that the overjudge at Strassburg wielded an immense influence; although, looking at the whole spirit of the Ordinances before us, it is hardly conceivable that his judicial decisions were promulgated on his own sole and undivided authority.

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• overjudges
• overjudging
• overjudged

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