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In some senses, approvement is marked as obsolete, archaic, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
approvement
noun 3
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noun
1
Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
2
Approval; approbation.
I did nothing without your approvement.
3
A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation or implication against the accomplices and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon.
The whole learning of approvements (i. e. trial by the evidence of an approver) is now obsolete being superseded by the modern practice of allowing an accused person to turn evidence for the Queen without confessing the indictment.
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I did nothing without your approvement.
Wiktionary02
The whole learning of approvements (i. e. trial by the evidence of an approver) is now obsolete being superseded by the modern practice of allowing an accused person to turn evidence for the Queen wit
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