Ascertainment Meaning
/əˈsɜːtənmənt/Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of ascertaining.
Sentence Examples
The ascertainment of the facts was crucial.
The process of ascertainment was thorough and meticulous.
The court ordered the ascertainment of the exact damages caused.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the truth required careful analysis of all the testimony.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The process of the ____ of the truth took several long and tiring months.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English ascertain Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English ascertainment From ascertain + -ment.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 […]"
— 1647, anonymous author, A Letter Really Written by a Moderate Cavallier to an Intelligent and Moderate Independent of Trust and Credit in the Now Marching Army, London, page 6:
"[…] 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."
— 1758, William Hawkins, Tracts in Divinity, volume 2, Oxford, page 321:
"[…] I judged it proper that there should be an exact ascertainment of my legal rights by the decree of a court of justice,"
— 1819, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in The Bride of Lammermoor, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 15:
"[…] 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?"
— 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 1, p. 151:
"[…] what we ought to aim at is less the ascertainment of resemblances and differences than the recognition of likenesses hidden under apparent divergences."
— 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 22, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part 3, page 266:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the truth required careful analysis of all the testimony.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The process of the ____ of the truth took several long and tiring months.