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The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
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The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
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The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
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The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.
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A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
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A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
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(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.
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The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
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A formula with no free variables.
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Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
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Sense; meaning; significance.
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One's opinion; manner of thinking.
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A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.