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comprobation

comprobation noun: joint attestation; proof.

Noun

comprobation (countable and uncountable, plural comprobations)

  1. (obsolete) joint 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
  2. (obsolete) approbation
    • the comprobation of the beſt and most famous learned men1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

Forms of comprobation

pluralcomprobations

Origin of comprobation

Latin comprobatio.

Questions about comprobation

What does comprobation mean?
Comprobation means joint attestation; proof.
What part of speech is comprobation?
Comprobation is a noun.
What is the plural of comprobation?
The plural of comprobation is comprobations.

Words near comprobation in the dictionary

  1. comprize
  2. comprized
  3. comprizes
  4. comprizing
  5. comprobate
  6. comprobation
  7. comprobations
  8. compromisable
  9. compromisation
  10. compromisations
  11. compromise

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