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approbation
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synonyms: plaudits ???
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Definition:approval or praise
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I didn't expect or even need, now, his approbation.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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she’d roll over for anyone, she’d tell anything, just for a moment of approbation.
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
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The women were good and commonplace people, and did their duty, and had their reward in clear consciences and the community's approbation. They were Presbyterians, the judge was a freethinker.
Mark Twain. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
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Miss Miller had praised me warmly; Miss Temple had smiled approbation; she had promised to teach me drawing, and to let me learn French, if I continued to make similar improvement two months longer
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"I am glad to have your approbation, gentlemen," said Mr. Waldengarver, with an air of dignity,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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‘And would Mr. Linton approve of his sister marrying that man?’ I inquired. [...]
‘He might spare himself the trouble,’ said Heathcliff: ‘I could do as well without his approbation.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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According to Madison/ Publius, the Philadelphia draftsmen had merely “proposed a Constitution which is to be of no more consequence than the paper on which it is written, unless it be stamped with the approbation of those to whom it is addressed. [The proposal] was to be submitted to the people themselves, [and] the disapprobation of this supreme authority would destroy it forever;
Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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She liked him too little to care for his approbation.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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there less probability in my account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked? I wrote for their amendment, and not their approbation.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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"Divorce by our laws," he said, with a slight shade of disapprobation of our laws, "is possible, as you are aware, in the following cases…. Wait a little!" he called to a clerk who put his head in at the door, but he got up all the same, said a few words to him, and sat down again.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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This time it was a double visitation, Murtagh and Ned Gowan, wearing similar looks of disapprobation.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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