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  • noun Plural form of appraisement.

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Examples

  • The third column, longest of all, totalling most in human heart-appraisements, was filled with items relating directly or indirectly to her and Sonny Grandison.

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • As Amintore Fanfani relates in Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism: “Another difference between the mentality of the pre-capitalist and that of the capitalist is this: the former considers that appraisement of value in the economic sphere should be governed by moral criteria; the latter would make the economic criterion the sole norm of such appraisements” emphasis mine.

    The Distributivism of Hilaire Belloc 2007

  • Each of the above properties were appraised in April, 1950 by three competent real estate agents as to their fair market value and the above prices represent those appraisements.

    Board of Visitors minutes 1950

  • The new Chancellor of the Exchequer also imposed a duty of forty shillings a ton on pig-iron; an additional duty on beer and spirits, in Ireland; and a paltry tax on appraisements.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • Not a week passes without a number of appraisements.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Such tracts as are not sold at or above the appraised value should be disposed if by _entry_ at the minimum price, in the same manner as under our former land system, subject at proper intervals to new appraisements and advertisements.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Furthermore, immediately preceding each of the sales above, I had each of the above properties appraised as to their fair market value as of September, 1950, by a highly competent real estate agent and the appraisements made by him as to each of the above properties was the same as each of the selling prices as noted.

    Board of Visitors minutes 1950

  • In spite of its insight into the weakness of man, in spite of its frank denunciation of the common masquerade of friendship, it speaks of the true kind in words of beauty that have never been surpassed in all the many appraisements of this subject.

    Friendship Hugh Black

  • The third column, longest of all, totalling most in human heart-appraisements, was filled with items relating directly or indirectly to her and Sonny Grandison.

    The Kanaka Surf 1919

  • In her, Howat's appraisements went on, virginity had been perpetuated in a captious obsession.

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

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