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sound judgement

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

Usage examples of "sound judgement".

Entering into the common road of life, he was notwithstanding able to regulate his conduct by just principles, and to recommend himself by a sound judgement and a steady courage.

The name (Quenya Noldo, Sindarin Golodh) meant 'the Wise' (but wise in the sense of possessing knowledge, not in the sense of possessing sagacity, sound judgement).

If clear thinking and sound judgement were all that could prevent a war from beginning here, they could all be in deep trouble.

It was a little game he played, on occasions when there were not enough facts for sound judgement, and one had to rely on intuition.

How comes a woman of your sound judgement to act so thoughtlessly as to tell a mariner he is in an unlucky ship?

Yet there they were, continuing to fly from the book, filling his kitchen with their sounds and radiance, repudiating all that adulthood had taught him, contravening the natural laws, contradicting sound judgement, and impugning every wisdom.