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Blame is a related term of sentence.


As verbs the difference between blame and sentence

is that blame is while sentence is to declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.

As a noun sentence is

(obsolete) sense; meaning; significance.

blame

English

Etymology 1

(etyl), from (etyl)

Noun

(-)
  • Censure.
    • Blame came from all directions.
  • Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
    • The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
  • Responsibility for something meriting censure.
    • They accepted the blame , but it was an accident.
    Derived terms
    * put the blame on
    See also
    * fault

    Etymology 2

    (etyl), from (etyl) blasmer, from . Compare (blaspheme)

    Verb

    (blam)
  • To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
    • though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame , yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].
  • *
    • These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.
  • * 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace :
    • That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary . The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.
  • * 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 106:
    • I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming .
  • (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
  • To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
    • The arsonist was blamed for the fire.
    Synonyms
    * reproach, take to task, upbraid * (consider that someone is the cause of something negative) hold to account
    Derived terms
    * blamer

    Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs

    sentence

    English

    (wikipedia sentence)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
  • * Milton
    • The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence .
  • (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
  • * Milton
    • My sentence is for open war.
  • * Atterbury
    • By them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.
  • (dated) The 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 cattle rustler.
  • * 1900 , , (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 form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
  • *, I.40:
  • *:Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence ) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.
    • (Broome)
  • (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.
    • 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.
  • (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

    • Synonyms

    * verdict * conviction

    Hypernyms

    * (logic) formula

    Related terms

    * sentential

    Verb

  • 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.
  • * Dryden
    • Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
  • * 1900', , 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.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
    • (Feltham)

    External links

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