certificate of character
Example Sentences
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The police first refused to give Stephen the usual "certificate of character" that most travelers carry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediately the part of the press of the country representing special privileges, which has always denounced and caricatured Mr Ford, gives him a certificate of character and with open arms welcomes him to its ranks.
From Time Magazine Archive
That is the certificate of character which she takes as guarantee of happiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
His letters home from school were generally pronounced to be good enough for Punch, and some of them, together with a certificate of character from his Vicar, were actually sent to that paper.
From The Holiday Round by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
Each copy given away seemed to Rigby like a certificate of character; a property which, like all men of dubious repute, he thoroughly appreciated.
From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
