APPROVEMENT

Ap‐prove″ment (�), n. 1. 1. Approbation.
I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward. 2. 2. (Eng. Law) 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. Burrill. Bouvier.