Meanings
nouncomprobation (countable and uncountable, plural comprobations)
plural comprobations
- countableobsoleteuncountablejoint attestation; proof
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;
1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica - countableobsoleteuncountableapprobation
the comprobation of the beſt and most famous learned men
1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latincomprobatio
- Englishcomprobation
Latin comprobatio.
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