sentence

Speech parts

1. sentence - Noun

2. sentence - Verb

Meaning

Sense; meaning; significance.

An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

To decree or announce as a sentence.

To utter sententiously.

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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. Niels Bohr

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. Horace Mann

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence Abolition of private property. Karl Marx

Hear the evidence before you pass sentence. American Proverb

Better a lean agreement than a fat sentence. Italian Proverb

Each head its sentence. Portuguese Proverb

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