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/ˈsɛntənsɪz/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
  2. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  3. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  4. A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
  5. (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.
  6. A formula with no free variables.
  7. To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
  8. To decree or announce as a sentence.
  9. To utter sententiously.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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