sentencing
Meaning of sentencing
- declare the punishment decided for (an offender).
ten army officers were sentenced to life imprisonment
Middle English (in the senses ‘way of thinking, opinion’, ‘court's declaration of punishment’, and ‘gist (of a piece of writing’)): via Old French from Latin sententia ‘opinion’, from sentire ‘feel, be of the opinion’.
Information about sentencing
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of sentencing is: sentencings.
- Languages in which sentencing is used:
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Hyphenation of sentencing
sen-tenc-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- sentencing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
sentencing synonyms
Meaning inflict a penalty or sanction on (someone) as retribution for an offence, especially a transgression of a legal or moral code:
Meaning declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law:
Meaning sentence (someone) to a particular punishment, especially death:
Meaning cause to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome:
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