AFFIDAVIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affidavit mean? 

• AFFIDAVIT (noun)
  The noun AFFIDAVIT has 1 sense:

1. written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath

  Familiarity information: AFFIDAVIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFIDAVIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("affidavit" is a kind of...):

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

testimony (a solemn statement made under oath)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "affidavit"):

verification ((law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement)

 Context examples 

Besides these, there were sundry immense manuscript Books of Evidence taken on affidavit, strongly bound, and tied together in massive sets, a set to each cause, as if every cause were a history in ten or twenty volumes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)