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English
Etymology
appraise + -ment
Noun
appraisement (countable and uncountable, plural appraisements)
- (dated) The act of appraising.
- Synonym: appraisal
1549, An Acte of the Relief Graunted to the Kinges Majestie by the Lordes and Commons, London:[…] thesayd praysers before they take vpon them the appraisement of suche clothes, shalbe sworne in maner & forme folowyng.
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume VII, London: S Richardson; , →OCLC, page 77: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.
1887, Hall Caine, chapter 37, in The Deemster, volume 3, London: Chatto & Windus, page 140:she who is dear to me beyond words of appraisement
1891, Thomas Hardy, “THE CONVERT”, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented , volume III, London: James R Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., , →OCLC, phase the sixth (The Convert), page 158:Having long discredited the old systems of mysticism, he now began to discredit the old appraisements of morality.
1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, Penguin, published 1954, Part 1, p. 27:A good name―what is called prestige―meant much in the Native world. They seemed to have made up, at some time, a joint appraisement of you, against which no one would afterwards go.
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