Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Judgment
judgment, n. [see judge, v.] (webplay: God, fair, grace, mind, passing, power, race, right, spirit, world).
- Day of reckoning; time appointed by God to decide the fate of individuals based on the choices of their mortal probation.
- Deity; God; the Lord; Jesus Christ as the mediator of humankind.
- Condemnation; punishment; guilty verdict; doom pronounced for recompense of broken laws.
- Act of judging; process of comparing ideas in the mind to ascertain truth; action of examining facts and arguments to determine propriety and justice; [fig] faculty of humankind to examine in the mind.
- Act of passing sentence; determination of a court of law.
- Phrase. “Judgment Day”: doomsday; day of reckoning; time of accountability; moment when the Lord will interview individuals about their choices in life; great and dreadful day of the Lord (see Malachi 4:5).
- Phrase. “Judgment Seat of God”: heavenly bar; divine tribunal; court on high; bench of moral accountability; place where the Lord sits when interviewing resurrected individuals.
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