certificate of character
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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
Lady Holden was a small, alert woman with a kindly eye, and her expression as she glanced at him was a certificate of character to her husband.
From The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
There is in monasticism a suggestion of the way in which it must retain its power over men's lives, and be enabled to furnish them with a certificate of character.
From Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 by Godkin, Edwin Lawrence
