criterion
noun
a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something.
criterions
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pluralof criterion.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It is this sentiment which causes Freethought to take the form of Secularism, and exchanges the verbal distractions of conflicting creeds for the clear criterions of moral truth.
From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake
Here I got acquainted with my world, and soon had my criterions of judgment.
From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The teachers and the boys alike know that they are never true criterions of progress, that they are seldom even fair representations of the actual course of study.
From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Once masters of logic, they passed in review the different criterions; first, that of common sense.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
These, for the advantage of the public, ought to be universally the same throughout the kingdom; being the general criterions which reduce all things to the same or an equivalent value.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
