pass judgment

““And,” Cly’rana continued, “was it appropriate for you to pass judgment on a servant when one of your elders is present in the house?”

Simon & Schuster: Death in Winter

“The Westminster Confession does not pass judgment on the children of heathens who die before coming to years of accountability.”

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination

“At the best you are a trifle puzzled and amused that this raw boy, crawling up out of the mire of the abyss, should pass judgment upon your class and call it vulgar.”

Chapter 45

“General Ransom were called upon to pass judgment upon the merits of the Kentuckian, and Ransom mounted him to show off his gaits.”

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,

“Then by what right did Martin Eden emerge, as he had so recently emerged, from his rag-time and working-class songs, and pass judgment on the world's music?”

Chapter 24

“Is it possible that Izumi Shikibu had been so rash as to pass judgment on some of Murasaki Shikibu's efforts?”

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan