Definitions for the word "judgment" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
The final award; the last sentence.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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