different between agreement vs approbation

English

Etymology

From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.

Morphologically agree +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????i?m?nt/

Noun

agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)

1. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

2. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

3. (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
4. (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

   • Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.

5. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
   • 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":

     Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].

Synonyms

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
• (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
• (A legally binding contract): settlement
• (linguistics, grammar): concord, concordance
• (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness

Coordinate terms

• (linguistics, grammar): rection

Hyponyms

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• consent, approval

See also

• consensus
• agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English agreement.

Noun

agreement m (invariable)

1. agreement (pact, accord)

Anagrams

• magnerete
• mangerete

Middle English

Noun

agreement

1. Alternative form of agrement

English

Etymology

From late Middle English approbacioun, from Old French approbacion (French approbation), from Latin approbatio, from approbare (“to assent to as good, approve, also show to be good, confirm”), from ad (“to”) + probare (“approve, commend”), from probus (“good”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æp.????be?.??n/, /?æp.???be?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æp.?o??be?.??n/, /?æp.???be?.??n/

Noun

approbation (countable and uncountable, plural approbations)

1. The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval, sanction, commendation or official recognition.
   • 1871, Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, ch. 3:

     [A]nimals not only love, but have desire to be loved. . . . They love approbation or praise.

Usage notes

• Approbation and approval have the same general meaning, assenting to or declaring as good, sanction, commendation; but approbation is stronger and more positive. We may be anxious for the approbation of our friends; but we should be still more anxious for the approval of our own consciences. He who is desirous to obtain universal approbation will learn a good lesson from the fable of the old man and his ass. The work has been examined by several excellent judges, who have expressed their unqualified approval of its plan and execution.
  (material dates from 1913)

Synonyms

• (act of approving): approval, concurrence, consent, liking, sanction
• See also Thesaurus:praise

Antonyms

• (act of approving): disapprobation

Related terms

Translations

See also

• approbation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• approbation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• approbation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• approbation at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin approb?ti?, approb?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.p??.ba.sj??/

Noun

approbation f (plural approbations)

1. approval (permission)

Related terms

• approbateur

Further reading

• “approbation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).