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judgment

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1. judgment - Noun

2. judgment - Verb

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The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.

A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.

The final award; the last sentence.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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To forgive does not mean to forget; to forgive means, with compassion and pain in the soul, to say: when the Last Judgment comes, I will stand up and say: do not judge him, Lord. Anthony of Sourozh

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. Sophocles

Where there is God, there is no evil. Everything coming from God is peaceful, healthy and leads a person to the judgment of his own imperfections and humility. Seraphim of Sarov

A man with good judgment does not make the goat his gardener. Hungarian Proverb

Imagination gallops, judgment merely walks. Italian Proverb

Of judgment every one has a stock on hand for sale. Italian Proverb

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