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sentencing

sentencing adjective: relating to a judicial sentence. Also the present participle and gerund of sentence.

Adjective

sentencing

  1. Relating to a judicial sentence.
    • There were no sentencing guidelines for this crime.

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.
    • 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."2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian
  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.

Also used as

sentencing is also the present participle and gerund of sentence.

sentencing meaning in Malayalam and Gujarati

sentencing in Malayalam

ശിക്ഷ വിധിക്കൽ

sentencing in Gujarati

સજા સંભળાવવી

Forms of sentencing

pluralsentencings

Words formed from sentencing

Questions about sentencing

What does sentencing mean?
Sentencing means relating to a judicial sentence.
What is sentencing in Malayalam?
Sentencing in Malayalam is ശിക്ഷ വിധിക്കൽ. See Sentencing meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is sentencing?
Sentencing can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near sentencing in the dictionary

  1. sentencers
  2. sentences
  3. sentencest
  4. sentenceth
  5. sentencewise
  6. sentencing
  7. sentencing range
  8. sentencings
  9. sentencious
  10. sentenciously
  11. Senteno

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sentencing (page history and authors); sentencing (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sentencing (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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