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appraisement

appraisement noun: the act of appraising.

Noun

appraisement (countable and uncountable, plural appraisements)

  1. (dated) The act of appraising.
    • […] thesayd praysers before they take vpon them the appraisement of suche clothes, shalbe sworne in maner & forme folowyng.1549, An Acte of the Relief Graunted to the Kinges Majestie by the Lordes and Commons, London
    • I was obliged to stay till this afternoon, to settle several necessary matters, and to direct inventories to be taken, in order for appraisement; for every thing is to be turned into money, by his will.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 77
    Synonyms:
    appraisal

appraisement meaning in Tamil and Urdu

appraisement in Tamil

மதிப்பீடு, மதிப்பிடுதல், தரமதிப்பு

appraisement in Urdu

قیمت کا اندازَہ, قیمت کی تَشخیص, قیمت کی جانچ, تَخمِیَہ کاری

Examples of appraisement in a sentence

  • she who is dear to me beyond words of appraisement1887, Hall Caine, chapter 37, in The Deemster, volume 3, London: Chatto & Windus, page 140:
  • Having long discredited the old systems of mysticism, he now began to discredit the old appraisements of morality.1891, Thomas Hardy, “THE CONVERT”, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley]...
  • They seemed to have made up, at some time, a joint appraisement of you, against which no one would afterwards go.1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, Penguin, published 1954, Part 1, p. 27:

Synonyms of appraisement

Forms of appraisement

pluralappraisements

Origin of appraisement

From appraise + -ment.

Questions about appraisement

What does appraisement mean?
Appraisement means the act of appraising.
What is appraisement in Tamil?
Appraisement in Tamil is மதிப்பீடு, மதிப்பிடுதல், தரமதிப்பு. See Appraisement meaning in Tamil.
How do you use appraisement in a sentence?
she who is dear to me beyond words of appraisement
What part of speech is appraisement?
Appraisement is a noun.
What is the plural of appraisement?
The plural of appraisement is appraisements.

Words near appraisement in the dictionary

  1. appraisals
  2. appraise
  3. appraised
  4. appraisee
  5. appraisees
  6. appraisement
  7. appraisements
  8. appraiser
  9. appraisers
  10. appraises
  11. appraiseth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: appraisement (page history and authors); appraisement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); appraisement (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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