单词 | pièce justificative |
释义 | pièce justificativen. A document serving as proof of an allegation; a justification of an assertion. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > documentary evidence > [noun] > source of authority?c1225 datum1630 source1788 pièce justificative1789 proof-text1801 1789 H. More in W. Roberts Mem. (1834) II. iii. iv. 160 You will think me a great brute and savage..till you have read my pièce justificative. 1882 A. J. Munby Diary 5 Apr. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 405 Some day I may publish some of these—piéces [sic] justificatives, as the phrase is. 1917 N. Douglas South Wind xxxiv. 412 The various pièces justificatives were lying in their sealed envelopes. 1997 Eng. Hist. Rev. 112 563 It embodied what was described as a ‘petition of prelates, earls, barons and the whole community of London’..and so presumably constituted a reply to the government's pièce justificative. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1789 |
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