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1. The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
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3. To impose a sentence on (a criminal defendant found guilty, for example).
4. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime
5. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
6. A group of words forming an independent grammatical unit, usually made up of a subject and a predicate that contains a finite verb.
7. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime
8. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
9. third-person singular present indicative
10. second-person singular imperative
11. A judicial decision, especially one setting the punishment to be inflicted on a convicted person:judgment.
12. A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm
13. A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
    obsolete
14. To pronounce judgment against:condemn, damn, doom.
15. A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation
16. A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
17. (usually with to) to condemn to a particular punishment. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. vonnis يَحْكُم على ، يُدين осъждам condenar odsoudit verurteilen dømme καταδικάζωcondenar (kohut) mõistma محكوم كردن tuomita condamner (à) לגְזוֹר דִין सजा सुनाना kazniti (el)ítél menghukum dæma condannare 宣告する 형에 처하다, 판결을 내리다 nuteisti piespriest sodu; notiesāt dihukum veroordelendømme, avsi dom over skazywać محكومول (لكه پر جزا): محكمي ته راكښل: رټل، لعنت كول (پر condenar a condamna (la) приговари...
    usually with
18. A formula with no free variables.
19. A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb.
20. Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
21. The penalty imposed by a law court or other authority upon someone found guilty of a crime or other offense.
22. Sense; meaning; significance.
    obsolete
23. One's opinion; manner of thinking.
    obsolete
24. Archaic A maxim.
    Archaic
25. A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
    archaic
26. Obsolete An opinion, especially one given formally after deliberation.
    Obsolete
27. (Linguistics) a sequence of words capable of standing alone to make an assertion, ask a question, or give a command, usually consisting of a subject and a predicate containing a finite verb

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Examples

“The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.”

“A branch that has played a significant part in the history of its territory is under sentence at the end of the summer timetables, so far as its passenger services are concerned.”

“The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.”

“The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.”

“Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.”

“I am told that she writes well, and that all her letters are full of sentences.”

“Near-synonym: clause”

“The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.”

“Noght o word spak he moore than was neede, / And that was seyd in forme and reverence / And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence […]”

“now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.”

“Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; […]”

“My sentence is for open war.”

“[I]f it may bee lawfull to iudge or giue any ſentence thereof, it [the author of the book of Ruth] was either Samuell, or ſome other godly Prophet vnder the raigne of Saule, [...]”

“By them [Martin Luther's works] we might pass sentence upon his doctrines.”

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