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Award   /əwˈɔrd/   Listen
noun
Award  n.  
1.
A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted."Impatient for the award." "An award had been given against."
2.
The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.


verb
Award  v. t.  (past & past part. awarded; pres. part. awarding)  To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. "To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new."


Award  v. i.  To determine; to make an award.





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"Award" Quotes from Famous Books



... the other, wondering to which he should award the golden apple, the prize of beauty. He did not care for power; he would be quite content to rule his sheep, and even that was not always easy. Nor did he care for wisdom or knowledge: he had enough for all ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... estate, the expense of the buildings and furniture at Percy-hall, of which a valuation had been made, should be taken in lieu of all arrears of rent to which Sir Robert might lay claim. In consequence of this award, Mr. Percy and his family were anxious to leave every thing about the house and place in perfect order, that they might fulfil punctually their part of the agreement. The evening before they were to quit Percy-hall, they went into every room, ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. VII - Patronage • Maria Edgeworth
... AEneas, "the award Is fixt, and no man shall the palm withhold. Yet be it mine to cheer a friend ill-starred." He spake, and Salius with a gift consoled, A Moorish lion's hide, with claws of gold And shaggy hair. Then Nisus with a frown: "If gifts so great a vanquished man may hold, If ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... here convicted of writing and publishing a seditious and scandalous Book, for which the Court's judgment is this, and the Court doth award, That you shall go to gaol for a fortnight, without bail or mainprise; and the next Saturday to stand upon the pillory at Ailsbury for the space of two hours, from eleven o'clock to one, with a Paper upon your head with this inscription, For writing, printing and publishing a schismatical ...
— Bygone Punishments • William Andrews
... the award of punishments two points must be considered. First equality, in order that the punishment may be just, and that "by what things a man sinneth by the same . . . he may be tormented" (Wis. 11:17). In this respect ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas


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