judgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jŭj'mənt
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/
Forms: form: judgments
form: judgement
form: iugement
form: iudgement
form: iudgment
form: iudgemente
form: iudgmente
Etymology: From Middle English juggement, borrowed from Old French jugement, from Late Latin iūdicāmentum, from Latin iūdicō. Partially displaced doom. By surface analysis, judge + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The key to the situation was judgment of the role the railways could play in modern times.
ref: 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 376:
glosses: The act of judging.
examples: text: a man of judgment / a man of good judgment
text: a politician without judgment
text: Hermia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 72:2:
text: [T]he person presented shall be tried and examined by the judgment of learned men of the church; […]
ref: 1840, Lewis Rose, chapter I, in An Humble Attempt to Put an End to the Present Divisions in the Church of Scotland, and to Promote Her Usefulness. […] , Glasgow: George Gallie, →OCLC, page 8:
text: 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.
ref: 2024, National Transportation Safety Board, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
glosses: The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
examples: text: She in my judgment was as fair as you.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
And yet methinks I have astronomy […]
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 14”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
synonyms: thinking
glosses: The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
examples: text: In judgments between the Rich and the Poor: it is not to be considered what the poor man needs, but what is his own
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
text: Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
topics: law
glosses: 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.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The final award; the last sentence.
Derived terms: against one's better judgment
age of judgment
arrest of judgment
cloud one's judgement
Day of Judgment
day of judgment
declaratory judgment
default judgment
forejudgment
judgmental
judgment call
judgment day
judgment debt
judgment hall
judgment hour
judgmentless
judgment of God
judgment of Solomon
judgment proof
judgment seat
judgment summons
judgment throne
misjudgment
nonjudgment
pass judgement
pass judgment
post-judgment
postjudgment
prejudgment
private judgment
reasons for judgment
self-judgment
sit in judgement
sit in judgment
snap judgment
summary judgment
value judgment