Comprobation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    joint attestation; proof countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "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. 2
    approbation countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "the comprobation of the beſt and most famous learned men"

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"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;"

Etymology

Latin comprobatio.

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