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approve
English
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p?u?v/
- Rhymes: -u?v
Etymology 1
From Middle English aproven, appreoven, appreven, apreven, borrowed from Old French aprover, approver, approuvir, appreuver (“to approve”), from Latin approb?, from ad + prob? (“to esteem as good, approve, prove”). Compare prove, approbate.
Verb
approve (third-person singular simple present approves, present participle approving, simple past and past participle approved)
- (transitive) To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
- (transitive) To regard as good or suitable; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
- (transitive, archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession Of James II
- He had approved himself a great warrior.
- 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series
- Opportunities to approve […] worth.
- 1812-1818, Lord Byron, Child Harolde's Piligrimage
- 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, III:
- He had long burned with impatience to approve his valour.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession Of James II
- (intransitive, followed by "of") To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
- 2016, Mitski, Your Best American Girl
- Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me. But I do, I think I do. And you're an all-American boy
- 1995, The Verve, A Northern Soul
- Dad didn't approve of me, do you? I'm alive with something inside of me.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession Of James II
- They had not approved of the deposition of James.
- 1758, Jonathan Swift, The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen
- Their address was in the most dutiful manner, approving of what her majesty had done toward a peace, and dissolve her parliament
- 2016, Mitski, Your Best American Girl
- (archaic, transitive, usually with a reflexive pronoun) To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Duty and Advantageous of Trust in God
- The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Duty and Advantageous of Trust in God
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English approuen, approven, from Old French aprouer; a- + a form apparently derived from the pro, prod, in Latin pr?sum (“be useful or profitable”). Compare with improve.
Verb
approve (third-person singular simple present approves, present participle approving, simple past and past participle approved)
- (transitive, law, English law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
References
- approve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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approbations
English
Noun
approbations
- plural of approbation
French
Noun
approbations f
- plural of approbation
approbations From the web:
- what does approbation mean
- definition approbation
- approbation dictionary
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