Pronounced: seh-MEL-puh-ruhs, adj
Notes: A completely new word to me
Yesterday’s word
The word approbation means “approval, commendation, or official sanction”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1300s
Background / Comments
Our word looks like “approval” and so is the meaning, so it’s easy to remember. It came from the Latin word approbation, which is made up of ad- (toward) and probatus, which comes from probare (to test the goodness of).
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