sentence
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
sentence (plural sentences)
- (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. [from 14th c.]
- The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
- The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. [from 14th c.]
- The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. [14th-19th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 206:
- I am told that she writes well, and that all her letters are full of sentences.
- (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. [from 15th c.]
- The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
- (logic) A formula with no free variables. [from 20th c.]
- (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. [from 20th c.]
- (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:
- Noght o word spak he moore than was neede,
- And that was seyd in forme and reverence
- And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence ...
- 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes:
- now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.
- 1915, T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":
- Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse ...
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:
- (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking. [14th-17th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II:
- My sentence is for open war.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II:
- (now, rare) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. [from 14th c.]
- By them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.
- Russian: выска́зывание
- French: jugement
- German: Urteil
- Italian: condanna
- Portuguese: sentença
- Russian: пригово́р
- Spanish: sentencia, condena
- German: Verurteilung, Schuldspruch
- Portuguese: condenação
- Russian: осужде́ние
- Spanish: sentencia, condena
- French: peine
- German: Strafe
- Italian: pena
- Portuguese: pena
- Russian: наказа́ние
- Spanish: sentencia, punición, condena, pena
sentence (sentences, present participle sentencing; past and past participle sentenced)
- To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
- The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
- Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- (obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.
- (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
- French: punir, condamner
- German: verurteilen
- Italian: condannare
- Portuguese: sentenciar
- Russian: пригова́ривать
- Spanish: sentenciar, condenar
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