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  Word: Approvement

  ID	Word	Wordtype	Definition
  8090	Approvement	n.	a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States.

  
  

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