Impeachment Definition

noun
An attack on the credibility of a witness for reasons relating to prior inconsistent testimony or evidence of lying.
Webster's New World Law
An administrative procedure, defined in the United States Constitution, under which the president or another government official is brought up on charges and tried by the Congress, and, if convicted, is removed from office.
Webster's New World Law

The act of impeaching a public official, either elected or appointed, before a tribunal charged with determining the facts of the matter.

Wiktionary

The state of being impeached.

Wiktionary

A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and therefore, is less likely to tell the truth now.

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Other Word Forms of Impeachment

Noun

Singular:
impeachment
Plural:
impeachments

Origin of Impeachment

  • From Old French empechement. See impeach +"Ž -ment.

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Impeachment Sentence Examples

  • For affixing the great seal to this declaration he was threatened with impeachment by the Commons.

  • Rodney (1772-1824), laid their articles of impeachment before the Senate.

  • Governor Ames, when the impeachment charges against him were dismissed on the 29th of March 1876, immediately resigned.

  • The constitution of 1846 limited the pay of members of both houses to three dollars a day and to three hundred dollars for any one session (except in impeachment proceedings) besides an allowance for travelling expenses, but since an amendment of 1874 they have been paid $1500 a year and ten cents a mile for travelling expenses.

  • The powers of the two houses are the same except that the senate exercises the usual right of confirming appointments and of sitting as a court of impeachment, while the House of Representatives initiates money bills and impeachment cases.

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