approbate
verb[IorT]
lawUSorScottish Englishformalorspecializeduk/ˈæp.rə.beɪt/us/ˈæp.rə.beɪt/toformallyorlegallyapproveoragreeto something:
This Constitution shall approbate newregionsestablishedinaccordancewithitsprovisions.
Thisstatementwas neither approbatednorrejectedby the appellatecourt.
approbate and reprobate
toacceptsomepartsof adocument, etc. because theysuitorhelpyou, and notacceptothers:
Thechildrenarguedthattheirstepmotherwas approbating and reprobating byclaimingfirst that one will was thetruewill, and then another.
- This is therepentancethat Mosespreached, and thatJesusapprobated.
- Nolitigant,evenadefendantin acriminalcase, will bepermittedto approbate andreprobate.
Approving & approval
- accepting
- affirmation
- approbation
- approval
- approving
- be here forsomeoneidiom
- body positive
- body positivity
- countenance
- like
- nice
- nice one!idiom
- relegitimize
- royal assent
- rubber stamp
- seal
- self-affirmation
- self-approbation
- thumb
- thumbs upidiom
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