LekhoriLekhoriThe decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
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.
The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ...
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To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
“We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief.[…]"
To utter sententiously.
Let me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle.