Judgement (VNV Nation album)
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
"They criticized my judgment of the contestants"
(2) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
(3) The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
(4) The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
(5) The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
(6) An opinion formed by judging something
"He was reluctant to make his judgment known"
"She changed her mind"
(7) The legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
"Opinions are usually written by a single judge"
WiktionaryText
Alternative spellings
- judgment
- iugement, iudgement, iudgment, iudgemente, iudgmente (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French jugement (French jugement), from juger; see judge.
Noun
- 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; as, a man of judgement; a politician without judgement.
- He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgement. –Psalms 72:2 (King James Version).
- Hermia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgement look. –Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, I-i
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
- She in my judgement was as fair as you. - Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, IV-iv
- 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 judgements between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own. –Jer. Taylor.
- Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgement. –Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, IV-i
- The final award; the last sentence.