| Front | approbation \ap-ruh-BEY-shuhn\ |
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| Back | noun 1. Approval; commendation. 2. Official approval or sanction. [From Latin approbation, from ap- + probatus, from probare (to test the goodness of).] "I wrote for their Amendment, and not their Approbation." - Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 1726. |
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