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■ noun approval; praise. —DERIVATIVES approbate verb (US rare). approbative adjective approbatory adjective —ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin approbatio(n-), from approbare ‘approve’, from ad- ‘to’ + probare ‘try, test’.