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Meanings of presentment in English

Portuguese
apresentação
Catalan
demostració
Spanish
demonstración

A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view.

        apresentação

        An accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative.

              Usage of presentment in English
              1
              The refusal was due to the death of the drawer before presentment.
              A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
              2
              In December, 1788, a grand jury in South Carolina made this presentment:
              The American Judiciary
              3
              In September, 1652, the following presentment was made by the grand jury:-
              Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II / With an Account of Salem Vi...
              4
              The parsonage is often an almost ideal presentment of peace and repose.
              Hodge and His Masters
              5
              This is the very presentment of what I saw in my dream.'
              The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
              6
              Pall Mall brought him back to that counterfeit presentment of the real-reality.
              The Dark Flower
              7
              To his dry presentment of the case nobody seemed to pay heed.
              Australia Felix
              8
              To preserve the counterfeit presentment of some which remain seems a duty.
              In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious
              9
              Here was the concrete, visible presentment of something that drew her strongly.
              North of Fifty-Three
              10
              Pending that day wardens and sidemen drew up their bills of presentment.
              The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspec...
              11
              It is with presentment that the artist has, fundamentally, to concern himself.
              Life of Robert Browning
              12
              Prosecutions by information are those not founded on a presentment or indictment.
              The American Judiciary
              13
              George was silent, the very presentment of a sorely harassed young man.
              The Sturdy Oak / A composite Novel of American Politics by fourt...
              14
              Sauvallier could not go out of doors without seeing his son's presentment.
              The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37, January, 1894. / An Illu...
              15
              Is its appeal to you confined to its presentment of the Past?
              Miscellaneous Papers
              16
              How perfect the preservation, and artful the presentment, of the various characters!
              The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 / With Life, Critica...
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