judgment

English Online Dictionary. What means judgment‎? What does judgment mean?

English

Alternative forms

• judgement (Commonwealth)
• iugement, iudgement, iudgment, iudgemente, iudgmente (all obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: jŭj'mənt, IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/

Noun

judgment (countable and uncountable, plural judgments)

1. The act of judging.
2. The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
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.

Usage notes

The spellings judgment and judgement are both commonly used, with the latter being most frequent in British English. British English retains the spelling judgment in legal contexts, however.

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References

• “judgment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “judgment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• judgment, judgement at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.