Definition of "deciding"

She saw to my meals; but the what and the when and the how of our eating was always controlled by her own decidings.

2005, Walter Wangerin Jr., Jesus: A Novel, Grand Rapids, M.I.: Zondervan, page 372

By keeping the court's public work mystified and secret, the justices, like [Clarence] Thomas, denigrate how important the actual deciding of cases is to the American people.

2007 November 30, Dahlia Lithwick, “Open Books”, in Slate‎, archived from the original on 2023-10-05

Justice [Anthony] Kennedy often casts the deciding vote in closely divided cases on major social issues.

2018 June 4, Adam Liptak, “In Narrow Decision, Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, archived from the original on 2023-09-15