postjudge

English edit

Etymology edit

Verb edit

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

Used to contrast with "prejudge": To judge after the fact.
- 1943, United States. Congress. Joint Committee ..., Hearings, page 1476:
  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.
- 1967, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs, Election of Virgin Islands Governor‎^[1]:
  There is a prejudging of the Commission's report and a postjudging of Congress' attitude last year.
- 2006, V. Anthony Rivers, My Life Is All I Have‎^[2]:
  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.