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(obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord. / (archaic) Approval; approbation.

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approvement

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Old-English countable obsolete uncountable archaic UK

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共用地を地主の利益のために転換・改良すること / 承認、賛同

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The village elders protested the lord's approvement of the open meadows, which stripped villagers of their grazing rights.

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村の長老たちは、領主が共有の牧草地を自分の利益のために囲い込んだことを抗議し、それが村人の放牧権を奪った。

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Sense（1）

(obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.

Sense（2）

(archaic) Approval; approbation.

I did nothing without your approvement.

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Sense（3）

(UK, law, obsolete) A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplices and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon.

The whole learning of approvements (i. e. trial by the evidence of an approver) is now obsolete being superseded by the modern practice of allowing an accused person to turn evidence for the Queen without confessing the indictment.

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approvements

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