ratificate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "To achieve this political unification each state has to delegate some of their rights to the EC [European Community] in Bruessel^([sic]) (i.e. making specific law etc.). And thats^([sic]) why the brits and danes had such problems in their parliament to ratificate the maastricht treaty. But as one can see, both did ratificate the treaty these days.^([sic])"
- "Some teachers taught some variants which wasn´t^([sic]) in Go-Kyo. I remember a tecnique called Kumi-Nague. This tecnique^([sic]) was taught for longtime in my dojo. One day, both name and right arm work changed. Now, it was Koshi-Guruma. Kumi-Nague never was included in Go-Kyo, but Koshi-Guruma was since 1895 and was ratificated on 1920."
- "No. It doesn't grant anything to anybody until ratificated by specific countries and included into law system. Declaration for the first time in humankind created internationally recognized standards for human rights."
Etymology
Back-formation from ratification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish ratificar and Italian ratificare.