sentence
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
Inflected forms:
form: sentences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sentences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sentencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sentenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sentenced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
A branch that has played a significant part in the history of its territory is under sentence at the end of the summer timetables, so far as its passenger services are concerned.
gloss: The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
pos: noun
examples: The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.
The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
gloss: A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
pos: noun
gloss: A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.
I am told that she writes well, and that all her letters are full of sentences.
gloss: A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using, e.g., the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: clause
The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
gloss: A formula with no free variables.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
pos: noun
gloss: Sense; meaning; significance.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Noght o word spak he moore than was neede, / And that was seyd in forme and reverence / And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence […]
now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; […]
gloss: One's opinion; manner of thinking.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: My sentence is for open war.
The book of ſentences, which rendered the name of Peter Lombard ſo illuſtrious, was a compilation of ſentences, and paſſages, drawn from the fathers, whoſe manifold contradictions, this eminent prelate endeavoured to reconcile.
gloss: A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: [I]f it may bee lawfull to iudge or giue any ſentence thereof, it [the author of the book of Ruth] was either Samuell, or ſome other godly Prophet vnder the raigne of Saule, [...]
By them [Martin Luther's works] we might pass sentence upon his doctrines.
gloss: To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
Moreover, in 2002 two EPB officials in Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province, were sentenced to jail for failing to stop a chemical plant from discharging toxic waste into the drinking-water system.
On Thursday, a court in south China's Hunan province sentenced a Chinese journalist, Yang Xiaoqing, to one year in jail for extortion after he wrote articles about official corruption.
And at that point, we have sentenced a child to motherhood.
gloss: To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
pos: verb
tags: especially
poetic
examples: “We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief.[…]"
So as far as the older generation of German Lutherans were concerned, the abolition of the mother language sentenced death upon the church as they knew it.
But little did I know, As I cleared away that snow, I'd sentenced death upon that rose, For late that night it simply froze. I'd taken its one chance away, As I stripped it of its quilt that day. I learned a lesson late that night, ...
[…] upholding Idaho statute mandating that court "shall" sentence death upon finding an aggravating circumstance "unless" it finds outweighing mitigating circumstances because satisfies individualized sentencing requirement […]
gloss: To utter sententiously.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Let me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle.
Synonyms: verdict
conviction
Related words: sentential
Derived words: circle sentence
cleft sentence
composite sentence
Concord sentence
death sentence
donkey sentence
foresentence
fused sentence
garden-path sentence
garden path sentence
hypersentence
incomplete sentence
intersentence
intrasentence
jail sentence
kernel sentence
life sentence
mandatory sentence
midsentence
minor sentence
multisentence
nonsentence
number sentence
periodic sentence
presentence
prison sentence
pro-sentence
pseudosentence
run-on sentence
sentegraph
sentenceable
sentence adverb
sentence case
sentence connective
sentence element
sentence-final particle
sentence fragment
sentenceful
sentencehood
sentencelike
sentence mix
sentenceness
sentencewise
sentoid
slifting
subsentence
suspended sentence
topic sentence
Wenker sentence
oversentence
resentence
sentencer
unsentenced
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