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Verdict vs Sentencing - What's the difference?

verdict | sentencing |

As nouns the difference between verdict and sentencing

is that verdict is (lb) a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest while sentencing is the act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.

As an adjective sentencing is

relating to a judicial sentence.

As a verb sentencing is

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verdict

English

(wikipedia verdict)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
  • :
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty —is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • An opinion or judgement.
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    • Derived terms

    * verdictive

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    sentencing

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Relating to a judicial sentence.
    • There were no sentencing guidelines for this crime.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.
    • After the verdict, the sentencing was not delayed.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Steven Morris , title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=Following the sentencing , Knutton said: "What sort of person does something so cold and calculating? I did not expect her to go to jail for it. I am just glad it is now all over."}}
  • (colloquial) The act of creating one or more complete sentences from fragmented thoughts and phrases.
    • He struggled with sentencing his frayed and angry verses from poem to prose.

    Verb

    (head)