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Approvement

Webster's Dictionary

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(1):

(n.) Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.

(2):

(n.) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States.

(3):

(n.) Approbation.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Approvement'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/approvement.html. 1828.
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