different between protestation vs statement

English

Etymology

From Old French protestacion, from Latin pr?test?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??t?s?te???n/, /?p???t?s?te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

protestation (countable and uncountable, plural protestations)

1. a formal solemn objection or other declaration
   • October 28, 1552, Hugh Latimer, Sermon on the Gospel for St Simon and St Jude's Day

     The protestation of our faith.

2. (law, historical) A declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.

Related terms

• protest

Anagrams

• potentiators

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?test?ti?, pr?test?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t?s.ta.sj??/

Noun

protestation f (plural protestations)

1. admission, exclamation, statement
2. protest, objection

References

• “protestation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ste?tm(?)nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ste?tm?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?tm?nt
• Hyphenation: state?ment

Etymology 1

From state +? -ment.

Noun

statement (plural statements)

1. A declaration or remark.
2. A presentation of opinion or position.
3. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.

4. (computing) An instruction in a computer program.
   • 1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming (page 174)

     However, it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that the control ultimately reaches the last statement of the range.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:statement

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from statementing or back-formation from statemented.

Verb

statement (third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented)

1. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

See also

• Special education in England on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• statement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• statement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• tentmates, testament