Pronounced: SHRPAHK-guh-fuel, noun
Notes: This word is a new one to me
Yesterday’s word
The word approbation is “approval, praise, commendation, or official sanction”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1300s
Background / Comments
I thought our word meant something like disapproval, but that is clearly wrong: it came from the Latin word approbation, which is made up of ad- (toward) and probatus, which came from probare (to test the goodness of).
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