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ascertainment

/əˈsɜːtənmənt/US/ˌæsɚˈteɪnmənt/

ascertainment noun: the act of ascertaining.

Noun

ascertainment (countable and uncountable, plural ascertainments)

  1. The act of ascertaining.
    • 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 […]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

ascertainment meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Odia

ascertainment in Tamil

துணி, நித்தாரம், துணிவு, நிகண்டு, நிசம், கண்டறிதல்

ascertainment in Urdu

دریافت, اثبات, تحقیق, تیقن

ascertainment in Kannada

ascertainment, investigation, inquiry; accurate or certain knowledge, a firm conviction; certainty, positiveness
ನಿಶ್ಚಯ niścaya

ascertainment in Odia

ascertainment
ନିର୍ଧାରଣ nirdhāraṇa
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ascertainment in Sanskrit
अवधारण avadhāraṇa, उद्देश uddeśa

Examples of ascertainment in a sentence

  • […] 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...
  • 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.2025 April 21, Devin Watkins, “Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88”, in Vatican News:

Forms of ascertainment

pluralascertainments

Origin of ascertainment

From ascertain + -ment.

Words formed from ascertainment

Questions about ascertainment

What does ascertainment mean?
Ascertainment means the act of ascertaining.
What is ascertainment in Tamil?
Ascertainment in Tamil is துணி, நித்தாரம், துணிவு. See Ascertainment meaning in Tamil.
How do you use ascertainment in a sentence?
[…] I judged it proper that there should be an exact ascertainment of my legal rights by the decree of a court of justice,
What part of speech is ascertainment?
Ascertainment is a noun.
How do you pronounce ascertainment?
Ascertainment is pronounced /əˈsɜːtənmənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of ascertainment?
The plural of ascertainment is ascertainments.

Words near ascertainment in the dictionary

  1. ascertainer
  2. ascertainers
  3. ascertainest
  4. ascertaineth
  5. ascertaining
  6. ascertainment
  7. ascertainments
  8. ascertains
  9. ascescence
  10. ascescent
  11. asceses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ascertainment (page history and authors); ascertainment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ascertainment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ನಿಶ್ಚಯ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ନିର୍ଧାରଣ (Odia) (page history and authors); अवधारण (Sanskrit) (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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