sentencing
/S EH1 N T AH0 N S IH0 NG/- 1
To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
“The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.”
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To decree or announce as a sentence.
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To utter sententiously.
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The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.
“After the verdict, the sentencing was not delayed.”
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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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Relating to a judicial sentence.
“There were no sentencing guidelines for this crime.”
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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sentence, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sentencing