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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
judgment
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a moral judgment
▪ We shouldn't make moral judgements about the way other people live their lives.
judgment day
last judgment
render a decision/opinion/judgment etc
▪ It is unlikely that the court will render an opinion before November 5.
subjective judgment/opinion etc
▪ The ratings were based on the subjective judgement of one person.
value judgment
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clinical
▪ This is what clinical judgment is all about.
final
▪ This will be a final judgment, but subject to the defendant's right to appeal.
▪ Mailer presents the final judgment to crucify the young man as political rather than spiritual.
▪ Only in Rome did both parties feel they could get a final judgment that would be respected.
▪ He prefers to serve as the objective analyst or loyal adviser rather than the final judgment maker.
following
▪ Taylor L.J. read the following judgment of the court.
▪ Lord Taylor of Gosforth C.J. read the following judgment of the court.
▪ Judge Paul Baker Q.C. read the following judgment.
▪ The following judgment was handed down.
▪ The following judgment was delivered in open court in Luxembourg. 1.
good
▪ Against my better judgment, I asked the record man if he were able to bring impoverished blues singers over to Ireland.
▪ Happily, Parks also has good judgment and fine people skills.
▪ Or did Mr Lawson simply let his natural rudeness get the better of his judgment?
▪ They also need tact, good judgment, and the ability to establish effective personal relationships to oversee staff.
▪ There does not have to be a statutory ban - it can be left to the good judgment of the court.
▪ All you can do is weigh the facts and make your own best judgment.
▪ In the end, we were seduced by the polls, against our better judgment.
▪ I have to be loyal to my conscience and my good judgment.
moral
▪ In discussing deviance here, no moral judgment is implied save in one respect.
▪ For at the core of its success lies a willingness to trust the spiritual integrity and moral judgment of its parishioners.
▪ Even if we abandon moral judgment in such cases, the balance of advantage must still be carefully and impartially weighed.
▪ It is an ethical or moral judgment in the sense that ethos and mores refer to the customary practices of a group.
▪ There is no reason to re-fight battles over history and moral judgment in this book.
political
▪ However, senior government figures say that Mr Mandelson's handling of the issue has damaged their faith in his political judgment.
▪ Answering the first question will depend on political judgment.
▪ Otherwise, it seems to have regarded it as a matter of political judgment.
▪ Lebed is intelligent but lacks political experience and judgment.
▪ The decision whether or not to give directives involves the Home Secretary in making a delicate and difficult political judgment.
▪ I think that, with Senator Kopp, perhaps a personal relationship interfered with his political judgment.
▪ Questions of value for money are about political judgment - the judgment of what is value for money.
▪ Value for money does not remove political judgment - it may well increase the emphasis on it.
poor
▪ That's no excuse for poor judgment.
▪ They tend to get disorganized as the mania increases, and even more prone to poor judgment.
▪ It is a sign of poor judgment at a time when good decisions are critical.
professional
▪ While you are a patient of mine, however, you must accept my professional judgment.
▪ Using your professional judgment, not merely doing as Woodhead tells you, is what teachers are paid for.
▪ People would value lay judgment alongside the professional judgment of information about the inspection of a school.
subjective
▪ This is usually done by the subjective judgment of the officer concerned.
▪ Reasonableness, however is a subjective judgment, which in turn can lead to differences of opinion.
▪ Marking the tests calls for a dangerous amount of subjective judgment.
well
▪ Against my better judgment, I asked the record man if he were able to bring impoverished blues singers over to Ireland.
▪ This teaching has led me, against my better judgment, to suspect people of trying to put one over.
▪ On impulse, and against his better judgment, he pulled off his own mask.
▪ There you could have made a better judgment.
▪ Or did Mr Lawson simply let his natural rudeness get the better of his judgment?
▪ She talked about the language for some time, seemingly against her better judgment, drawn by his earnest desire to learn.
▪ Amendments are sometimes accepted by the Government against its better judgment to prevent disruption of the Parliamentary timetable.
▪ Well, it was against my better judgment.
■ NOUN
court
▪ Government lawyers have been encouraged by a 1997 Appeal Court judgment preventing the spy George Blake from receiving royalties on his autobiography.
▪ This disgraceful court judgment rewards Butch Reynolds for cheating.
value
▪ To make a value judgment by calling something good or bad is to classify it in terms of its reinforcing effects.
▪ A prescription is a value judgment that indicates what should occur and should be done.
▪ That is not a value judgment, but a statistical one.
▪ Inevitably, value judgment plays an important role in this process.
▪ The court must bear contemporary social standards in mind in making what will in some cases necessarily be a value judgment.
▪ What the legitimate ambit of a certain power actually is will necessarily be a value judgment.
▪ But this assumption rests on a contestable value judgment about the proper role of the judiciary in controlling the government.
▪ Site-specific works invariably manifest a value judgment about the larger context of which they are a part.
■ VERB
based
▪ My recommendations are no more than guide-lines based on my own judgment and personal preference.
▪ Answer each question based on your best judgment of what your partner actually does.
▪ Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest also based his judgment on the nineteenth century jurisprudence.
deliver
▪ I have already, before delivering this judgment, heard argument about the precise form of the order.
▪ It is up to the people considering the planning application to deliver a judgment on the assessment.
enter
▪ The jury would then enter a judgment against Simpson for the dollar amount to be paid in damages.
exercise
▪ Adjudication officers are employees in the relevant Department but exercise independent judgment on claims in making decisions within their province.
▪ Often these acts of kindness came from the same men who had grossly failed to exercise judgment on previous occasions.
▪ Meader found that by any standard, even if one disagrees with their decisions, voters exercised informed judgment and rational choices.
▪ He also was criticized for failure to exercise good judgment and creating the appearance of partisanship.
▪ But bureaucrats have scant leeway to exercise judgment.
form
▪ Catch him in Birmingham tonight and form your own judgment on the supposed heir to Bevan, Foot and Kinnock.
▪ They will not then defer decision until they form their own judgment.
▪ Either way no surrender of judgment in the sense of refraining from forming a judgment is involved.
▪ For there is no objection to people forming their own judgment on any issue they like.
▪ I am content to let you form your own judgment of my character.
give
▪ I therefore give judgment for the plaintiff company for the amount claimed.
▪ The people are being asked to give their own judgment before major governmental decisions are made.
▪ Although Lord Russell of Killowen gave a dissenting judgment it is felt that that point holds good.
▪ If I thought it was worth publishing, he would give in to my judgment.
▪ I have spoken of the three triggers, those stimuli on which Tod's body gives judgment.
▪ In offering to give up his hard-won judgment, Goldman also volunteered his attorneys for a bit of unanticipated altruism.
▪ The Court of Appeal sat on 28 October 1991 and gave judgment on 12 November.
▪ The Court of Appeal affirmed the existence of an implied duty not to prepare to compete and gave judgment for the plaintiffs.
make
▪ You can make your own judgment as to what he, and others like him, might have totalled today.
▪ How can a choice be made without making a judgment?
▪ We must wait and see what its impact is before making that judgment.
▪ The body mass index is a convenient measure on which to make this judgment.
▪ Without making a judgment, what will stop anyone from reading Rod McKuen all his life?
▪ They made an error in judgment.
▪ If we think that she is suffering more than the average person, how do we 36 make that judgment?
obtain
▪ The owner sued the insurers and obtained judgment in the county court for £5,199.30.
▪ If you have owed money, you could find that the lender has obtained judgment against you without your knowledge.
pass
▪ Like everyone else, they will be able to pass judgment by means of the ballot box.
▪ No longer is it tainted as mystic, for here, with no one passing judgment, no experience is tainted.
▪ In 1965 an Act was passed which reversed this judgment.
▪ Managers will often find it difficult not to pass judgment on subordinates automatically.
▪ They pass judgment on an accused taking into account the gravity of the crime and the circumstances of the accused.
▪ We had filed suit to pass judgment on Harvester.
▪ The duty of the court is neither to make nor to alter nor to pass judgment on the law.
▪ He never passed judgment about the wishes; he just granted them impassively.
read
▪ Taylor L.J. read the following judgment of the court.
▪ Lord Taylor of Gosforth C.J. read the following judgment of the court.
▪ Judge Paul Baker Q.C. read the following judgment.
▪ However, others have not read the judgment in that way.
▪ That is what, as I read his judgment, the judge has done here.
referred
▪ No cases are referred to in the judgment or were cited in argument.
reserve
▪ Three appeal court judges reserved judgment.
▪ I think people should reserve judgment.
▪ Professor Furmston said he would reserve judgment until next week.
set
▪ In these circumstances, if the trust had been validly set up, then judgment would have to be for the beneficiary.
▪ For these reasons, and for the reasons set out in the judgment of Balcombe L.J., I would allow this appeal.
▪ For the reasons set out in the judgment of Staughton L.J. I would reject that contention.
▪ The facts are set out in the judgment.
▪ I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment.
▪ The Court of Appeal set aside that judgment and entered judgment for the defendants on their counterclaim.
▪ In the Court of Appeal, the judgment below was set aside and judgment was entered for the defendants on their counterclaim.
sit
▪ Certain Christians have also given the impression that they sit in judgment over others.
▪ An unforgiving managerial continuum reaching from the father to the oldest remembered paternal relative sits in stony judgment.
▪ Harrison presented himself and H-1 to the eight commissioners who sat in judgment of his work.
state
▪ The facts are stated in the judgment of Sir Donald Nicholls V.-C.
▪ The facts are stated in the judgment.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deliver a judgment/verdict
▪ After initial indecision, the inquest jury delivered a verdict of lawful killing.
▪ It is up to the people considering the planning application to deliver a judgment on the assessment.
▪ Letters delivered a verdict of innocence.
informed decision/choice/judgment etc
▪ And now supermarkets throughout the country are helping the shopper to make more informed choices.
▪ As with a question of fact, the more informed judgement could be the mistaken one.
▪ Information is vital Good information is essential if people are to make informed choices about services.
▪ Micky Burns from the players' union advises and assists on the options to help them make informed choices about their futures.
▪ The view is that a consent is not valid unless the patient has enough information to make an informed choice.
▪ They provide young people with career exploration and counseling so they can make more informed decisions about their academic and occupational goals.
▪ This brochure empowers sufferers with knowledge to make informed decisions about their headache care.
▪ Who, we also want students to make well, informed decisions and that there are particular places like the 0.
pass judgment (on sb)
▪ He never passed judgment about the wishes; he just granted them impassively.
▪ I used to pass judgment on sight.
▪ Like everyone else, they will be able to pass judgment by means of the ballot box.
▪ Managers will often find it difficult not to pass judgment on subordinates automatically.
▪ No longer is it tainted as mystic, for here, with no one passing judgment, no experience is tainted.
▪ The duty of the court is neither to make nor to alter nor to pass judgment on the law.
▪ They pass judgment on an accused taking into account the gravity of the crime and the circumstances of the accused.
▪ We had filed suit to pass judgment on Harvester.
reserve (your) judgment (on sth)
▪ I think people should reserve judgment.
▪ Professor Furmston said he would reserve judgment until next week.
▪ Three appeal court judges reserved judgment.
sit in judgment (on/over sb)
▪ Certain Christians have also given the impression that they sit in judgment over others.
▪ Harrison presented himself and H-1 to the eight commissioners who sat in judgment of his work.
snap judgment/decision
▪ As I begin to uncover a whole new world myself, I see the folly of that snap judgment.
▪ Consultation and investigation Having your say Employers should avoid making snap decisions in cases of sickness absence.
▪ I just made a snap decision that this was where I wanted to be.
▪ I will not make a snap decision, Lieutenant.
▪ If the failure occurs higher on the launch, again a snap decision can be fatal.
▪ Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again.
▪ So his leave-taking is no snap decision.
suspend judgment
the last judgment
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I trust your judgment, Phyllis.
▪ The court did not alter the $2,500 judgment.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Judgment

Judgment \Judg"ment\, n. [OE. jugement, F. jugement, LL. judicamentum, fr. L. judicare. See Judge, v. i.]

  1. The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of things, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.

    I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed.
    --Chaucer.

  2. The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.

    He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.
    --Ps. lxxii. 2.

    Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
    --Shak.

  3. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.

    She in my judgment was as fair as you.
    --Shak.

    Who first his judgment asked, and then a place.
    --Pope.

  4. 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; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.

    In judgments 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 judgment.
    --Shak.

  5. (Philos.) (a) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See

    1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical. (b) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See

    2. A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.
      --Sir W. Hamilton.

      The power by which we are enabled to perceive what is true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment.
      --Stewart.

  6. A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment. ``Judgments are prepared for scorners.''
    --Prov. xix. 29. ``This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble.''
    --Shak.

  7. (Theol.) The final award; the last sentence.

    Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement.

    Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining combinations; as, judgment hour; judgment throne.

    Judgment day (Theol.), the last day, or period when final judgment will be pronounced on the subjects of God's moral government.

    Judgment debt (Law), a debt secured to the creditor by a judge's order.

    Judgment hall, a hall where courts are held.

    Judgment seat, the seat or bench on which judges sit in court; hence, a court; a tribunal. ``We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.''
    --Rom. xiv. 10.

    Judgment summons (Law), a proceeding by a judgment creditor against a judgment debtor upon an unsatisfied judgment.

    Arrest of judgment. (Law) See under Arrest, n.

    Judgment of God, a term formerly applied to extraordinary trials of secret crimes, as by arms and single combat, by ordeal, etc.; it being imagined that God would work miracles to vindicate innocence. See under Ordeal.

    Syn: Discernment; decision; determination; award; estimate; criticism; taste; discrimination; penetration; sagacity; intelligence; understanding. See Taste.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
judgment

mid-13c., "action of trying at law, trial," also "capacity for making decisions," from Old French jugement "legal judgment; diagnosis; the Last Judgment" (11c.), from jugier (see judge (v.)). From late 13c. as "penalty imposed by a court;" early 14c. as "any authoritative decision, verdict." From c.1300 in referfence to the Last Judgment. Also from c.1300 as "opinion." Sense of "discernment" is first recorded 1530s.

Wiktionary
judgment

n. 1 The act of judge. 2 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 judgment; a politician without judgment. 3 The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision. 4 (context legal English) 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 (context theology English) The final award; the last sentence.

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WordNet
judgment

  1. n. an opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind" [syn: judgement, mind]

  2. the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants" [syn: judgement, assessment]

  3. (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it [syn: judgement, judicial decision]

  4. the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions [syn: judgement, judging]

  5. the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge" [syn: opinion, legal opinion, judgement]

  6. the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions [syn: judgement, sound judgment, sound judgement, perspicacity]

  7. ability to make good judgments [syn: sagacity, sagaciousness, judgement, discernment]

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Wikipedia
Judgment (Star Trek: Enterprise)

__NOTOC__ "Judgment" is the nineteenth episode of the second season of Star Trek: Enterprise, the forty-fifth episode overall. It originally aired on April 9, 2003.

Captain Archer is tried in a Klingon tribunal for attacking a Klingon ship and inciting a rebellion.

Judgment (disambiguation)

A judgment is a balanced weighing up of evidence to form a decision or opinion.

Judgment or judgement may also refer to:

  • Judgment (mathematical logic), in mathematical logic
  • A judgment (law), a formal decision made by a court following a lawsuit
  • A value judgment, a determination of something's worth or goodness, based upon a particular set of values or point of view
  • Judgement, another name for Oh, hell, especially in India
Judgment (film)

Judgment is an HBO made for television film. It first aired on October 13, 1990 and was written and directed by Tom Topor.

Judgment (law)

In law, a judgment is a decision of a court regarding the rights and liabilities of parties in a legal action or proceeding. Judgments also generally provide the court's explanation of why it has chosen to make a particular court order.

The phrase "reasons for judgment" is often used interchangeably with "judgment," although the former refers to the court's justification of its judgment while the latter refers to the final court order regarding the rights and liabilities of the parties. As the main legal systems of the world recognize either a common law, statutory, or constitutional duty to provide reasons for a judgment, drawing a distinction between "judgment" and "reasons for judgment" may be unnecessary in most circumstances.

Judgment (Angel)

"Judgment" is episode 1 of season 2 of the television show Angel, broadcast on September 26, 2000 on the WB network. The episode was written by David Greenwalt, with a story from Greenwalt and series creator Joss Whedon, and directed by Michael Lange. In this episode, when Angel accidentally kills the demonic protector of a pregnant woman named Jo, he takes over as her champion. She is seeking protection for her unborn child from the mystical Tribunal, which requires her champion to defeat a challenger in single combat. Meanwhile, Wolfram & Hart have resurrected the long-dead vampire Darla to seek revenge against Angel.

Judgment (mathematical logic)

In mathematical logic, a judgment or assertion may be thought of as a statement or enunciation in the meta-language. For example, typical judgments in first-order logic would be that a string is a well-formed formula, or that a proposition is true. Similarly, a judgment may assert the occurrence of a free variable in an expression of the object language, or the provability of a proposition. In general, a judgment may be any inductively definable assertion in the metatheory.

Judgments are used for example in formalizing deduction systems: a logical axiom expresses a judgment, premises of a rule of inference are formed as a sequence of judgments, and their conclusion is a judgment as well. Also the result of a proof expresses a judgment, and the used hypotheses are formed as a sequence of judgments. A characteristic feature of the variants of Hilbert-style deduction systems is that the context is not changed in any of their rules of inference, while both natural deduction and sequent calculus contain some context-changing rules. Thus, if we are interested only in the derivability of tautologies, not hypothetical judgments, then we can formalize the Hilbert-style deduction system in such a way that its rules of inference contain only judgments of a rather simple form. The same cannot be done with the other two deductions systems: as context is changed in some of their rules of inferences, they cannot be formalized so that hypothetical judgments could be avoided—not even if we want to use them just for proving derivability of tautologies.

This basic diversity among the various calculi allows such difference, that the same basic thought (e.g. deduction theorem) must be proven as a metatheorem in Hilbert-style deduction system, while it can be declared explicitly as a rule of inference in natural deduction.

In type theory, some analogous notions are used as in mathematical logic (giving rise to connections between the two fields, e.g. Curry-Howard correspondence). The abstraction in the notion of judgment in mathematical logic can be exploited also in foundation of type theory as well.

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Usage examples of "judgment".

I will not wear thy soul with words about my grief and sorrow: but it is to be told that I sat now in a perilous place, and yet I might not step down from it and abide in that land, for then it was a sure thing, that some of my foes would have laid hand on me and brought me to judgment for being but myself, and I should have ended miserably.

Guard Captain arrived, he told me that I could either stay in jail all night and face trial in the morning or I could trust in the judgment of the gods by being in the front ranks of the defenders when Abraxas attacked that evening.

To punish the exercise of this right to discuss public affairs or to penalize it through libel judgments is to abridge or shut off discussion of the very kind most needed.

WAS NEXT MORNING, about an hour before dawn, that I found myself, against my better judgment, riding escort for Miz Lewis as we headed off into the far western acreage of the Cottonwood ranch.

I am so confident of my own innocence, and have such a perfect reliance upon the honour of your lordships, that I am not afraid to submit to judgment upon the evidence which has been adduced on the part of the prosecution.

More creditable to the cause was the adherence of men like Sir William Cecil, later Lord Burghley, a man of cool judgment and decent conversation.

A hearing before judgment, with full opportunity to submit evidence and arguments being all that can be adjudged vital, it follows that rehearings and new trials are not essential to due process of law.

Inasmuch as it is within the power of a State to provide that one who has undertaken administration of an estate shall remain subject to the order of its courts until said administration is closed, it follows that there can be no question as to the validity of a judgment for unadministered assets obtained on service of publication plus service personally upon an executor in the State in which he had taken refuge and in which he had been adjudged incompetent.

Nevada, in the absence of acquiring jurisdiction over the wife, was held incapable of adjudicating the rights of the wife in the prior New York judgment awarding her alimony.

Also, in a suit to enforce double liability, brought in Rhode Island against a stockholder in a Kansas trust company, the courts of Rhode Island were held to be obligated to extend recognition to the statutes and court decisions of Kansas whereunder it is established that a Kansas judgment recovered by a creditor against the trust company is not only conclusive as to the liability of the corporation but also an adjudication binding each stockholder therein.

And he drew from recollection, the raw enthusiasm of his adolescence, when ideals were a substitute for judgment, life was play, and the future entailed nothing more lively than horse raids and begetting children.

He was a playful youngster who often let his adventuresome nature get the better of him, and from time to time his sense of fun took him beyond the limits of good judgment.

As always, Akeela told the crowd that they would each be seen in turn, and would receive his fairest judgment.

Cuthan, Earl of Bryn, for Taras and Bru Mardan, and all their thanes, swear to defend the rights of him holding Hen Amas, to march to war under his command, to gather levies and revenues, to acknowledge him lord and sovereign over its claims and courts and to abide by his judgments in all disputes.

Since the decision of this case in 1867 the authority of the Supreme Court to exercise appellate jurisdiction over legislative courts has turned not upon the nature or status of such courts, but rather upon the nature of the proceeding before the lower Court and the finality of its judgment.