comprobation

English

Etymology

Latin comprobatio.

Noun

comprobation (countable and uncountable, plural comprobations)

1. (obsolete) joint attestation; proof
   • 1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     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. (obsolete) approbation
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

     the comprobation of the beſt and most famous learned men

References

“comprobation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.