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sent.

sent. is the abbreviation of sentencing.

sent. is the abbreviation of sentence.

sent. is the abbreviation of sentenced.

Meaning of sentencing

Noun

sentencing (countable and uncountable, plural sentencings)

  1. (uncountable) The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.
    • After the verdict, the sentencing was not delayed.
  2. (countable) That which has been pronounced as a judgement or sentence for a crime.
  3. (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.

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Meaning of sentence

Noun

sentence (plural sentences)

  1. (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
    • The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
  2. 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.
  3. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  4. (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
    • Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  5. 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.
    • Near-synonym: clause
    Synonyms:
    clause
  6. A formula with no free variables.

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Questions about sent.

What is sent. the abbreviation of?
Sent. is the abbreviation of sentencing.

Words near sent. in the dictionary

  1. sent to the scaffold
  2. sent to the Tower
  3. sent up
  4. sent word
  5. sent-down
  6. sent.
  7. sentai
  8. sentai hex
  9. sentd.
  10. sente
  11. sentegraph

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