approve
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- Stati Uniti//əˈpɹuːv//
To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
verbo
- 1
To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
Although we may disagree with it, we must nevertheless approve the sentence handed down by the court-martial.
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
- 2
To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
We approve the measure of the administration, for it is an excellent decision.
- 3
arcaicoTo make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
He had long burned with impatience to approve his valour.
1812–1818, Lord Byron, Child Harolde's Piligrimage 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.
Opportunities to approve[…]worth.
He had approved himself a great warrior.
- 4
To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
Her mother never approves of any of her boyfriends. She thinks nobody is good enough for her little girl.
Their address was in the most dutiful manner, approving of what her majesty had done toward a peace, and dissolve her parliament
They had not approved of the deposition of James.
Dad didn't approve of me, do you? I'm alive with something inside of me.
- 5
arcaicoTo show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.
The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-der. Proto-Italic *proβwos Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *proβwāō Latin probō Latin approbāreder. Old French aproverbor. Middle English aproven English approve From Middle English aproven, appreoven, appreven, apreven, borrowed from Old French aprover, approver, approuvir, appreuver (“to approve”), from Latin approbō, from ad + probō (“to esteem as good, approve, prove”). Doublet of approbate. By surface analysis, ad- + prove.
verbo
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To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
Etimologia
From Middle English approuen, approven, from Old French aprouer; a- + a form apparently derived from the pro, prod, in Latin prōsum (“be useful or profitable”). Compare with improve.
Forme
- passato
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- participio passato
- approved
- participio presente
- approving
- 3ª persona singolare
- approves
approve · To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
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