From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[Judgement (disambiguation)]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], borrowed from [en], from [en], from [en]. Partially [en]. [+suf].
*** Pronunciation
- [jŭj'mənt] , [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. The act of judging .
2. * [en]
3. The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
4. * [1]
5. * [Psalms]
6. * [en]
7. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2024 | author= [National Transportation Safety Board] | title=Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022
| passage= 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.}}
1. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion ; a decision .
2. * [IV]
3. * [14]
4. [en] 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. * [passage=In JUDGMENTS between the Rich and the Poor: it is not to be considered what the poor man needs, but what is his own]
6. * [4]
7. [en] The final award ; the last sentence .
**** Usage notes
The spellings _judgment_ and _judgement_ are both commonly used, with the
latter being most frequent in British English. British English retains the
spelling _judgment_ in legal contexts, however.
**** Derived terms
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|age of judgment|sit in judgment|day of judgment|declaratory judgment|judgment
of Solomon|judgment proof|private judgment|snap judgment|summary
judgment|value judgment|default judgment|post-judgment |against one's better
judgment |arrest of judgment |cloud one's judgement|pass judgment |Day of
Judgment|self-judgment |judgment call |judgment day |judgment debt |judgment
hall |judgment hour |judgment of God |judgment seat |judgment summons
|judgment throne |judgmental |pass judgement |reasons for judgment |sit in
judgement }}
**** Translations
[act of judging]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic:
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got] , [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Latin: [la]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Somali: [so]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [rare]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[power or faculty of making a judgment]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] [colloquial] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[conclusion or result of judging]
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] (unfrequently), [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got] , [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Higaonon: [mba]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Latin: [la]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl] , [old fashioned] [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[(law) act of determining what is conformable to law]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [obsolete] [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [суде́бное] [ru] , [суде́бный] [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[(theology) final award; the last sentence]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Old Occitan: [pro]
- Scots: [sco]
[trans-bottom]
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- [theology] Judgment day, the last day, or period when final judgment will be pronounced on the subjects of God's moral government. --
- [legal] Judgment debt, a debt secured to the creditor by a judge's order.
- JUDGMENT hall, a hall where courts are held.
- JUDGMENT seat, the seat or bench on which judges sit in court; hence, a court; a tribunal.
- :* We shall all stand before the JUDGMENT seat of Christ. _Romans xiv. 10_ ( Bible ).
- [legal] JUDGMENT summons, a proceeding by a JUDGMENT creditor against a JUDGMENT debtor upon an unsatisfied JUDGMENT .
- [legal] Arrest of JUDGMENT . See under Arrest .
- JUDGMENT of God, a term formerly applied to extraordinary trials of secret crimes, as by arms and single combat, by ordeal, etc.; it being imagined that God would work miracles to vindicate innocence. See under Ordeal .
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*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:OneLook]
- [judgment, judgement]
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