approbation

How To Use approbation In A Sentence

• His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
• They left the _furca_ and the _patibulum_, the axe and the rods, to great offenders: for these minor and (if I may so term them) extra-moral offences _the bent thumb_ was considered as a sufficient sign of disapprobation, -- _vertere pollicem_; as _the pressed thumb, premere pollicem_, was a mark of approving. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
• Few thinkers today risk such disapprobation by questioning our attitudes to modern living.
• Not merely daring and endurance but better still temper, self-restraint, fairness, honour, unenvying approbation of another's success and all that give and take of life which stands a man in good stead when he goes forth into the world. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
• His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
• Moreover, such policy encouragement for partnered women to prioritise motherhood turns to disapprobation if those same women become single parents.
• Here I underwent a second survey, which ended in the full approbation of Mrs. Phoebe Ayres, the name of my tutoress elect, to whose care and instructions I was affectionately recommended. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
• You cannot have two mega-personalities in a relationship where both are needy, egotistical, insecure and dependent on public approbation.
• Its rewards are abundant in friendships as well as in cash, and the happiness radiated to you from behind the footlights is the direct result of the happiness that permeates the very being of the smiling favorite of the gods whose efforts to please you have met with your approbation. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession
• Was it observation, approbation or disapproval?