Approval

[f. APPROVE v.¹ + -AL 2. Rare bef. 1800; now generally used instead of next.] The action of approving; sanctioning approbation.

1690.  Temple, Her. Virtue, in Misc., 188 (J.). A Censor of Justice and Manners, without whose approval no capital Sentences are to be executed.

1814.  Cary, Dante, Parad., XXIV. 57. I … in her looks Approval met.

1843.  Mill, Logic, V. vii. § 2. Mankind had stamped its approval upon certain actions.