postjudge

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verb

Used to contrast with "prejudge": To judge after the fact.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

verbpostjudge (third-person singular simple present postjudges, present participle postjudging, simple past and past participle postjudged)

present singular third person postjudges · participle present postjudging · participle past postjudged · past postjudged

  1. Used to contrast with "prejudge": To judge after the fact.

    There is a prejudging of the Commission's report and a postjudging of Congress' attitude last year.

    1967, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs, Election of Virgin Islands Governor
    2 more examples

    In making this personal statement of my views, to which you are entitled, nothing that I say is intended either to postjudge the past or to prejudge the future.

    1943, United States. Congress. Joint Committee ..., Hearings, page 1476

    She had me thinking about Mama and all the shit she'd say about people she don't even know. Mama be pre and postjudging all the time.

    2006, V. Anthony Rivers, My Life Is All I Have

Origin

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