Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun . The act of approving; approbation; an expression of assent or preference.
- noun In law, the act of becoming an approver or informer; the act of a prisoner who confesses, and accuses his accomplices; the act of turning king's or state's evidence.
- noun In old English law: The improvement by the lord of a manor of common or waste lands by inclosing and converting them to his own use.
- noun The profits of such lands.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Old Eng. Law) Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.
- noun Approbation.
- noun (Eng. Law) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as
turning king's (orqueen's )evidence in England, andstate's evidence in the United States.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, Old English law Improvement of
common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
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Examples
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Whatever Paul is or is not, he is an only an approvement when one considers Lieberman, who is actually and increduously still a part of the US Government.
Paul Casts a Larger Shadow (Convention) - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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He tales it one step further in improvement the stamp of approvement for the "improvement" came from Munsell himself by adding the "dominance" of each mixture when doing the charts.
The Color Wheel, Part 5 James Gurney 2010
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TEFL - course that reminded me of this tolerance/toleration; empathic/empathetic; approval/approvement post.
On tolerating DC 2008
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It's just that I overheard the other day someone in the street saying: "he was nodding in approvement"
On tolerating DC 2008
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I have a pair of crutches in a corner for the support of them, without hospital approvement..
Home again! magnio 2008
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I've never heard approvement in this sense in modern English.
On tolerating DC 2008
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When we get these seven to nine approvement management levels in place at headquarters, many of those people see their job as, kind of, a gatekeeper function, and, kind of, a power thing or whatever.
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The government should put a halt on the approvement of arms sales to the Middle East amid the ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis, the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference said on Wednesday.
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A centre would also be built towards the end of the year to facilitate the building process in aspects such as the approvement of plans and quality inspections, Mofokeng said.
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The Cabinet gave in principle approvement to the tabling of two bills:
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