Antonyms for presentment


Grammar : Noun
Spell : pri-zent-muh nt
Phonetic Transcription : prɪˈzɛnt mənt


Definition of presentment

Origin :
  • "act of presenting," c.1300, from Old French presentement "presentation (of a person) at a ceremony" (12c.), from presenter (see present (v.)).
  • As in indictment : noun accusation
  • As in lawsuit : noun case brought to court
  • As in picture : noun illustration, likeness of something
  • As in statement : noun declaration, assertion
  • As in depiction : noun description, rendering
  • As in description : noun account in speech, writing
Example sentences :
  • His presentment at the arched loophole in his stockade was formidable.
  • Extract from : « They of the High Trails » by Hamlin Garland
  • Poor Lovejoy's letter reads as if he had a presentment of his coming doom.
  • Extract from : « The Jefferson-Lemen Compact » by Willard C. MacNaul.
  • She gazed at it, fascinated, as one is by one's own presentment.
  • Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. » by John Galsworthy
  • He was wondering if his presentment about Julia as the great thing in his life had been an illusion.
  • Extract from : « Narcissus » by Evelyn Scott
  • All these things Verse disposes, and composes, in One Presentment.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 » by Various
  • Five years later a Presentment for the whole parish cost 13s.
  • Extract from : « The Church of Grasmere » by Mary L. Armitt
  • The Heimliche Acht is a presentment not traversable by the offender.
  • Extract from : « Anne of Geierstein, Volume I (of 2) » by Sir Walter Scott
  • That is a presentment of activity which manifests blue and the rest.
  • Extract from : « The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha » by Madhava Acharya
  • But the presentment of the possibility had shaken the foundations of the world.
  • Extract from : « The Open Question » by Elizabeth Robins
  • There is that presentment and the quiet is not so sound but that there can be a change of origin.
  • Extract from : « Geography and Plays » by Gertrude Stein

Synonyms for presentment

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