approvement

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord. Old-English,countable,obsolete,uncountable
  2. Approval; approbation. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — 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. UK,countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — The whole learning of approvements (i. e. trial by the evidence of an approver) is now obsolete being superseded by the modern practice of allowing an accused person to turn evidence for the Queen without confessing the indictment.

词形变化

approvements plural

词源

Etymology tree
Latin approbōder.
Old French aproverbor.
Middle English aproven
English approve
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English approvement
From approve + -ment.
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