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Old Feb 14, 2006, 10:04 PM
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i am a dork because suddenly i didnt really know what judging or judgement/judgment is ( i didnt even know there were 2 ways to spell it) so i looked it and that word has 10 definitions!!!!!! in case anyone is intersted:

Definitions:

1. legal verdict: the decision arrived at and pronounced by a court of law

2. obligation resulting from verdict: an obligation, e.g. a debt, that arises as a result of a court's verdict, or a document setting out an obligation of this kind

3. decision of judge: the decision reached by one or more judges in a contest
The judgment of the panel must be regarded as final.

4. decision on disputed matter: an opinion formed or a decision reached in the case of a disputed, controversial, or doubtful matter

5. discernment or good sense: the ability to form sound opinions and make sensible decisions or reliable guesses
someone with shrewd commercial judgment

6. opinion: an opinion formed or given after consideration
a snap judgment

7. estimate based on observation: an estimate of something such as speed or distance, made with the help of the eye or some other sense

8. judging of something: the judging of a case or a contest

9. divine punishment: a misfortune regarded as a divine punishment for folly or sin ( archaic or humorous )
The defeat was regarded as a judgment from God on the leader's pride.

10. act of making statement: in logic, the mental act of making or understanding a positive or negative proposition about something, e.g. in "a chihuahua is a dog" or "a lobster is not an insect"

[13th century. < Old French jugement < jugier "to judge" < Latin judicare (see judicature)]
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