decision
/dɪˈsɪʒn̩/ noun B1- The act of deciding.
- A choice or judgement. · It is the decision of the court that movies are protected as free speech.· His life has always been filled with big decisions.
- Firmness of conviction. · After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision.
- A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest. · He has won twice by knockout, once by decision.
- A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
Plural decisions
From the library
Noirtier, paler than even the young girl, more eager than Villefort for the decision, was watching also intently and affectionately.
She was beautiful, but her beauty was of too marked and decided a character to please a fastidious taste; her hair was raven black, but its natural waves seemed somewhat rebellious; her eyes, of the same color as her hair, were surmounted by well-arched brows, whose great defect, however, consisted in an almost habitual frown, while her whole physiognomy wore that expression of firmness and decision so little in accordance with the gentler attributes of her sex—her nose was precisely what a sculptor would have chosen for a chiselled Juno.
“And is there no means of making him revoke his decision?”
“I do not say that I await with pleasure his decision, but I do await it.
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