Definition of "sound judgment" [sound judgment]

• The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "There may be — there always are — many facts which the poorest chronicler records correctly; but we accept each of these, not because of the recorder’s accurate and sound judgment in selecting his facts, but because of other reasons external to him."
• "His steady, unflinching determination to gain time for the wagons to get beyond the point of danger was characteristic of the man, and this was the third occasion on which he had exhibited a high order of capacity and sound judgment since coming under my command."
• "Divine Master, has nowhere left a more valuable instance of her sound judgment and high discriminating powers than in the selection of Mrs. Rawlins to be placed at the head of this experimental prison, occupied alone by females; and so successful has the experiment been, that I understand several other prisons solely for females have been lately opened in Scotland, and even in"