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Etymology
From Old French jugement < Late Latin idicmentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /d'd'mnt/, enPR: jj'mnt
Noun
judgement (plural judgements)
- 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
- (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
Further reading
Judgement (or judgment) is the evaluation of evidence in the making of a decision. The term has three distinct uses:
- Informal and psychological - used in reference to the quality of cognitive faculties and adjudicational capabilities of particular individuals, typically called wisdom or discernment.
- Legal - used in the context of legal trial, to refer to a final finding, statement, or ruling, based on a considered weighing of evidence, called "adjudication".
- Religious - used in the concept of salvation to refer to the adjudication of God in determining Heaven or Hell for each and all human beings.
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