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Sentence   /sˈɛntəns/   Listen
noun
Sentence  n.  
1.
Sense; meaning; significance. (Obs.) "Tales of best sentence and most solace." "The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence."
2.
(a)
An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature. "My sentence is for open war." "That by them (Luther's works) we may pass sentence upon his doctrines."
(b)
A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
3.
(Law) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases. "Received the sentence of the law."
4.
A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
5.
(Gram.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4. Note: Sentences are simple or compound. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, "The Lord reigns." A compound sentence contains two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse: - "He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all."
Dark sentence, a saying not easily explained. "A king... understanding dark sentences."


verb
Sentence  v. t.  (past & past part. sentenced; pres. part. sentencing)  
1.
To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of. "Nature herself is sentenced in your doom."
2.
To decree or announce as a sentence. (Obs.)
3.
To utter sententiously. (Obs.)





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"Sentence" Quotes from Famous Books



... for Calais, &c.—In editing Tyndale's Pathway (Works, vol. i. p. 22.), I allowed preceding editors to induce me to print pastor, where the oldest authority had paster. As the following part of the sentence speaks of "suppling and suaging wounds," I am inclined to suspect that "paster" might be an old way of spelling, "plaster." Can any of your correspondents supply me with any instance in which "plaster" or "plaister" is spelt "paster" by any ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 37. Saturday, July 13, 1850 • Various
... up," said Cornelius, "and receive the just and merciful sentence of the Court for licentious and disgraceful conduct unbecomin' a supercargo. The defendant says he has no money. Very well. The Court regrets it has no calaboose. In lieu thereof, and in view of the impoverished condition of the defendant, the Court fines said ...
— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London
... day, an ever-present care, and his long struggle with death was an inseparable sadness in my existence. I remarked to Lowell one day that I feared he would die, and Lowell replied, "I should be afraid he would not die." The seeming cruelty of the expression struck me like a sentence of death, and momentarily chilled my feeling towards Lowell; but the incident made me understand some things in life as I could not have otherwise understood them, enabling me to take a larger view of our individual sorrows. ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman
... this sentence at least half a dozen times, while the gentlemen were issuing orders to the persons assembled for the apprehension of the burglars, and some of the females of the family were endeavouring to restore Grace to animation. At last Sir Thomas Purcel turned ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No. - 580, Supplemental Number • Various
... judgment. So it appeared to me to be a duty to put the truth before you, terrible though it may be. Anything may be expected of Lucien, anything good or evil. That is our opinion, and this letter is summed up in that sentence. If the vicissitudes of his present way of life (a very wretched and slippery one) should bring the poet back to you, use all your influence to keep him among you; for until his character has acquired stability, ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac


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