Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SEN'TENCE
SEN'TENCE, v.t.
- To pass or pronounce the judgment of a court on; to doom; as, to sentence a convict to death, to transportation, or to imprisonment.
- To condemn; to doom to punishment. Nature herself is sentenc'd in your doom. – Dryden.
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