Approbation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for APPROBATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• approval, consent
• approval or praise
• Proof; attestation.
• The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation.
• Probation or novitiate.
• official approval
• official recognition or approval
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• proof

Words related to APPROBATION

approbations18 approbative20 approbatory20

Words that contain APPROBATION

approbations18 disapprobation21 disapprobations22

How to use APPROBATION in a sentence

• Who could measure the space between the present time and the abolition of the trade, if that measure were to depend upon the approbation of the colonies.
• These reforms, having but little reference to partisan politics, received the approbation of both Whigs and Tories.
• Men of wit and learning employ themselves to celebrate his talents, and to express their approbation of his writings.
• But he hid his secret thoughts under the veil of outward praise and approbation.
• My approbation of his tender behaviour in the midst of my grief, has given him a right, as he seems to think, of addressing me with all the freedom of an approved lover.
• Thus also should history be written, rather anxious to gain the approbation of posterity by truth and merit, than to acquire present applause by adulation and falsehood.
• What he called love of approbation, self-esteem, and pleasure of possession I subsummed under the name of Pride of Conquest and Possession.
• Bill followed with equal ease, and equal approbation.
• Not with entire approbation do I, for one, look on that eloquent individual.
• The play which sought the approbation of this audience shows no originality of plot, no depth of passion.
• Lindsay has won the approbation of the critics and of his audiences in general for the new verse form which he is employing.
• But the outburst of approbation he had anticipated did not follow.
• These being covered with the mantle of his approbation, are beyond criticism.
• Hammond in a friendly way, being desirous to know whether it meets his approbation, or whether he would wish any alterations in it.
• There are more than is thought who feel the burden of human imperfection too sorely, and who receive strength from approbation.
• He indignantly denied this charge, and in his own account of the scene he affirms that he won the approbation of all who listened, by the moderation of his bearing and speech.
• And I think, moreover, that his approbation ought to be your chief study.
• It must give voice to its love and its approbation and its condemnation.
• The result was that it grew rapidly in public favour, and commanded the support and approbation of the highest literary circles.
• I am not so vain as to think this Approbation is so much due to the Performance as to the Design.
• There cannot be a greater Argument of the general good Understanding of a People, than a sudden Consent to give their Approbation of a Sentiment which has no Emotion in it.
• Kinzie, but did not meet the approbation of the commanding officer.
• It would take a good deal to win any approbation from that bunch.
• The principal motive in this department is Reward, in the shape either of benefits or of approbation.
• The Master nodded, smiling, with never any hint of praise or approbation.
• The teachings of Christ show us the value of life, tell us how to live, how to die, how to win the divine approbation.
• Whenever we approve, we can find an hundred good reasons to justify our approbation.
• At some of these meetings he spoke of the White Cross movement, and was successful in gaining the approbation of most of the members of the Association.
• In the last war they behaved so as to deserve our approbation, and indeed have, on all occasions, given marks of their attachment and fidelity.

Similar words containing APPROBA without suffix tion

approbate15 approbated17 approbates16 approbating18 approbative20 approbatory20 approbations18 disapprobation21 disapprobative24 disapprobatory24 disapprobations22

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