comprobation

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English

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Etymology

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Latin comprobatio.

Noun

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comprobation (countable and uncountable, plural comprobations)

  1. (obsolete) joint attestation; proof
    • 1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
      Thus in law both Civill and Divine, that is only esteemed a legall testimony, which receives comprobation from the mouths of at least two witnesses;
  2. (obsolete) approbation

References

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comprobation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.