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n. Sense; meaning; significance.
n. An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
n. A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
n. 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 judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
n. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
n. 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.
v. t. To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
v. t. To decree or announce as a sentence.
v. t. To utter sententiously.

Crossword clues for sentence

- Condemn (to)
- Court judgment on a grammatical term
- Impose imprisonment on
- Judge's pronouncement
- Legal punishment
- Part of paragraph
- Pass judgment on extremely sentimental experience
- Question or statement
- Sequence of words
- Spooner requests ten cents as punishment
- Ten in scene about verdict
- Time in prison
- Time to be served in gaol