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approued

approued is the obsolete spelling of approved.

Meaning of approved

Adjective

approved (not comparable)

  1. Having received approval.
    • Employees' approved expense claims will be reimbursed by the 4th of the following month.
  2. (archaic) Proven or demonstrated by experience.
    • Now woorthy Tamburlaine, haue I repoſ’d,
      In thy approoued Fortunes all my hope,
      What thinkſt thou man, ſhal come of our attempts?c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

Questions about approued

What is approued the obsolete spelling of?
Approued is the obsolete spelling of approved.

Words near approued in the dictionary

  1. appropries
  2. appropring
  3. appropry
  4. approprying
  5. approtinin
  6. approued
  7. approvability
  8. approvable
  9. approvableness
  10. approvably
  11. approval

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Adapted from Wiktionary: approued (page history and authors); approved (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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