DOOM

doom, n. Hist. 1. A statute or law. 2. A judgment; esp., a sentence in a criminal matter. 3. Justice; fairness. 4. A trial; the process of adjudicating. “The word ‘doom’ is, perhaps, best translated as ‘judgment.’ It survived in occasional use until the fourteenth century. Wyclif’s translation of the Bible, rendering the verse, ‘For […]