judgment

Etymology

From Middle English juggement, borrowed from Old French jugement, from Late Latin iūdicāmentum, from Latin iūdicō. Displaced native doom. Morphologically judge + -ment

noun

  1. The act of judging.
    The key to the situation was judgment of the role the railways could play in modern times. 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 376
  2. The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely
    a man of judgment / a man of good judgment
    a politician without judgment
  3. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
  4. (law) 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. (theology) The final award; the last sentence.

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