Judgment vs Existimation - What's the difference?
judgment | existimation |
The act of judging.
The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
* Psalms 72:2 ().
* Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream , I-i
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
* Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona , IV-iv
(legal) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
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* Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice , IV-i
(theology) The final award; the last sentence.
Opinion, esteem or judgment.
* 1918 , R. Robinson (translator), Thomas More (author), Utopia :
As nouns the difference between judgment and existimation
is that judgment is the act of judging while existimation is opinion, esteem or judgment.judgment
English
Alternative forms
* judgement (British) * iugement, iudgement, iudgment, iudgemente, iudgmente (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment .
- Hermia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
- She in my judgment was as fair as you.
- In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own.
- Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment .
Usage notes
See for discussion of spelling usage of judgment' versus '''judgement . Briefly, without the ''-e'' is preferred in law globally, and in American English, while with the ''-e is preferred in British English. Like (abridgment), (acknowledgment), and (lodgment), judgment is sometimes written with English spellings in American English, as (judgement) (respectively, (abridgement), (acknowledgement), and (lodgement)). The British spelling preserves the rule that G can only be soft while preceding an E, I, or Y.Derived terms
* against one's better judgment * arrest of judgment * Day of Judgment * judgment call * judgment day * judgment debt * judgment hall * judgment hour * judgment of God * judgment seat * judgment summons * judgment throneReferences
*existimation
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Noun
(en noun)- Then if a man in such a company, where some disdain and have despite at other men's inventions, and some count their own best, if among such men (I say) a man should bring forth anything, that he hath read done in times past, or that he hath seen done in other places: there the hearers fare as though the whole'' existimation ''of their wisdom were in jeopardy to be overthrown, and that ever after they should be counted for very fools, unless they could in other men's inventions pick out matter to reprehend, and find fault at.
