constatation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   rare and formal: the process of establishing, verifying, or formally recording a fact

   The committee's final constatation confirmed that the document was authentic.

2. 2
   noun

   rare: a statement, assertion, or proposition presented as an established fact

   His confident constatation that the dispute was over proved premature.

Borrowed in the twentieth century from French constatation, from constater, 'to establish or verify as fact,' ultimately Latin constat, 'it is certain or established.' English uses remain rare and formal, especially in legal, philosophical, and critical writing.

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