APPROVEMENT

approvement

Noun

  1. Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
  2. approval; approbation
  3. A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplices and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon.


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