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postjudge en · VERB

Etymology

From post- + judge.

Meanings

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

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