Assertion: approbation | /r/CapableOf | serve to lay stress
Facets:
value: upon the excellencies of the works
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: These approbations very soon attained considerable importance in the internal relations of the Jews for they not only served to lay stress upon the excellencies of the works to which they referred, but were also the only protection against piracy which the Jewish printers of that age possessed.