"ascertainment" meaning in English

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          "text": "You have a great Worke to doe, to restore Religion and Law, upon which depends the Kings re-enthronement, and re-investure with his just rights, the Parliaments ascertainment of their just power and equall Priviledges, and the peoples restorement to their known Liberties and Properties […]",
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          "text": "[…] Mr. Pope himself appears to me […] now and then to have imagin’d Proprieties, or cover’d Defects with a seeming View rather to the Honour of his Author at all Events, than to the precise Ascertainment of Truth.",
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          "ref": "1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 1, p. 151:",
          "text": "[…] does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which shall bind the smallest things with the greatest?",
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