APPROBATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Official recognition or approval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("approbation" is a kind of...):

approval; commendation (a message expressing a favorable opinion)

Antonym:

disapprobation (an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable)

Derivation:

approbate (accept (documents) as valid)

approbate (approve or sanction officially)

approve (judge to be right or commendable; think well of)

approve (give sanction to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Official approval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("approbation" is a kind of...):

approval (a feeling of liking something or someone good)

Derivation:

approbate (accept (documents) as valid)

approbate (approve or sanction officially)

approve (judge to be right or commendable; think well of)

Credits

Context examples:

He bestowed his hearty approbation however on their species of house.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I wrote for their amendment, and not their approbation.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Give me your approbation, then, Fanny.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was all general approbation and smoothness; nothing delineated or distinguished.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"The Pot" he honored with reading aloud, as he did "Adventure." "Joy," his latest-born, completed the day before and tossed into the corner for lack of stamps, won his keenest approbation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He sneaked back into his cell, amidst a little chorus of approbation; and both Traddles and I experienced a great relief when he was locked in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He smiled approbation: we shook hands, and he took leave.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This was enough to prove that her approbation need not be doubted: and Elizabeth, rejoicing that such an effusion was heard only by herself, soon went away.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"I feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love."