sentence

Forms

1.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 child rapist.
- 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.
2.A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- There is a mistake in the sentence.
- Compare your sentence with the one on the blackboard.
- He couldn't understand the sentence.
3.A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using, e.g., the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
- The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
4.A formula with no free variables.
- There is a mistake in the sentence.
- Compare your sentence with the one on the blackboard.
- He couldn't understand the sentence.

1.To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
- Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
- And at that point, we have sentenced a child to motherhood.
- The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
2.To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
- So as far as the older generation of German Lutherans were concerned, the abolition of the mother language sentenced death upon the church as they knew it.

Common· #1912

Borrowed from Middle French sentence

From Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”)

From sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).