improbation

English

Etymology

Latin improbatio.

Noun

improbation (countable and uncountable, plural improbations)

  1. disapproval
  2. (law, Scotland) The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for improbation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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