Approvement
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Approvement is a noun meaning (UK, law, obsolete) 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.
Meaning
(UK, law, obsolete) 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.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
- (archaic) Approval; approbation.
Example Sentences
I did nothing without your approvement.
The whole learning of approvements (i. e. trial by the evidence of an approver) is now obsolete being superseded by the modern practice of allowing an accused person to turn evidence for the Queen without confessing the indictment.
Word Forms
- approvements
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include approvance, approof, allowance, approbation, comprobation, betterment.
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