The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation.

approval, comrnendation or praise; a formal or official act of approval

Approval and praise.

Probation or novitiate.

Approbation is, in Roman Catholic canon law, an act by which a bishop or other legitimate superior grants to an ecclesiastic the actual exercise of his ministry.

Proof; attestation.