The act of approving; approval (archaic or literary term).
From approve + -ment (suffix forming nouns denoting actions, results, or states). Related to French approbation but with the -ment ending.
Approvement appears in Shakespeare and the King James Bible, now replaced entirely by the simpler 'approval.' It's a ghost word—technically correct but nobody uses it anymore.
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