ratificatory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to or characterized by ratification.
Example Sentences
- "The Know-Nothings of the Capital held a ratificatory, glorificatory and speechificatory meeting in the State House on last Saturday evening, which wes^([sic]) intended to be a very grand and glorious affair."
- "To make the bitter move easier to swallow, both Klaus and Meciar have deployed a considerable propagandist arsenal for anesthesing the population. Both have abused publicly owned media for political purposes and both have mislead people about "referendum", then about "ex-post ratificatory referendum" that have never been held."
- "I believe the current modalities include nominating commissions drawn not just from the local assemblies, but also mass organizations, and some sort of ratificatory vote by the population, but I'm not too clear on it."
- "Having not heard you pronounce Telugu words before, I can't be as ratificatory as Balaji about your pronunciation: I'm am^([sic]) not quite sure what the "~" represents."
- "Proceed to obtain all ratificatory approvals,resolutions and set the records in order,pls."
Etymology
Possibly from Latin ratificātus + -ory, after ratification.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: la:ratificātus
Inflected Forms
more ratificatory (comparative)
most ratificatory (superlative)