Notarisations

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The process of officially validating or certifying a document by a notary public
2. The act of authenticating signatures and documents to ensure their legal validity
3. A formal procedure that involves the acknowledgment and verification of documents by a designated officer

Etymology: "Notarisations" is simply the plural of "notarisation", the British spelling of the noun for the act of having a document notarised. Its history is that of the noun it pluralises, which is built from "notary", an officer authorised to witness and certify documents, combined with the suffix "-ation", which turns a verb into a noun for an action or its result. The plural adds "-s" to count separate acts, so one notarisation is a single certified document or transaction, and several notarisations are several such procedures.