Sentence:  `` Actually , the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county , altho vindication of the authority of that court <WSD>is</WSD> not the function of this court '' , said Karns , who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)