Meaning of Ascertainment | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of ascertaining.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“the ascertainment of facts”

“You have a great Worke to doe, to restore Religion and Law, upon which depends the Kings re-enthronement, and re-investure with his just rights, the Parliaments ascertainment of their just power and equall Priviledges, and the peoples restorement to their known Liberties and Properties […]”

“[…] Mr. Pope himself appears to me […] now and then to have imagin’d Proprieties, or cover’d Defects with a seeming View rather to the Honour of his Author at all Events, than to the precise Ascertainment of Truth.”

“[…] I judged it proper that there should be an exact ascertainment of my legal rights by the decree of a court of justice,”

“[…] does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which shall bind the smallest things with the greatest?”

“[…] what we ought to aim at is less the ascertainment of resemblances and differences than the recognition of likenesses hidden under apparent divergences.”

“The ascertainment of death takes place in the chapel, rather than in the room where he died, and his body is immediately placed inside the coffin.”

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