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(n)
(countable) A firmly held belief.
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(v)
(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
(uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
(law) An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury.
(law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
(chiefly Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of judgment. [The act of judging.]
The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
(law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance.
The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
A regulation, law, guideline.
A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
Agreement; act of agreeing.
(adj)
Subject to punishment; appropriate for punishment.
Of or relating to punishment.
The act of deciding.
An order or a decision on a point of law from someone in authority.
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
(countable, uncountable) Value.
Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.
The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
A declaration or remark.
(countable) A temporary state of custody or confinement.
The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
(uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
A distinguished or eminent person.
A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
The act of saying sorry; an apology.
(countable) A command.
(advertising) A catchphrase associated with a product or service being advertised.
A casual observation, comment, or statement
The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
A spoken or written remark.
A joust, tournament.
The ability to do or undergo something.
A small dot or mark.
(chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.
An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
The act of seeing or looking at something.
That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
A repeated expression, often originating in popular culture.
The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
Part of a longer paragraph that can be considered alone, as in a legal document.
A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
A proverb or maxim.
Fine champagne; French brandy.
The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong.
The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
A short written or spoken expression.
A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.
condemnation
An only child.
A person sentenced to death.
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
(adv)
(degree) Barely, only just, almost not.
(uncountable) A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
(not comparable, degree) By a small margin.
(degree) Hardly: only just; by a small margin.
(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
In a marginal manner, or to a marginal extent; barely sufficiently; slightly.
The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
The act of one who struggles.
A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
British, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
(chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
(degree) To a small extent or degree.
(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
A distressing or dangerous situation.
(uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
(informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
Trouble, inconvenience.
(uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.