private judgment

Noun

Meaning

private judgment

Assumption of judgment by individual reason on matters which are not amenable to a lower tribunal than the universal reason of the race.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. Ezra Stiles

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. Charles Hodge

We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact! John Adams

Close letter words and terms

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