How To Use Approbation In A Sentence
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His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
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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
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Few thinkers today risk such disapprobation by questioning our attitudes to modern living.
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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
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His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
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Moreover, such policy encouragement for partnered women to prioritise motherhood turns to disapprobation if those same women become single parents.
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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
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You cannot have two mega-personalities in a relationship where both are needy, egotistical, insecure and dependent on public approbation.
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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
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Was it observation, approbation or disapproval?
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Almost inevitably, however, the hero's creators do not allow him to remain in his superhuman condition; they "rehumanize" him, in effect, and/or have him voice approbation and admiration of ordinary human values.
Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture
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There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries [412] of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You must know that though I grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate.
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They deserve credit, approbation, applause and salutations for this achievement.
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His participation in the parade implies acceptance, approval, approbation.
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You will come here; you will observe what the artists are doing; and you will sometimes speak a disapprobation in plain words, and sometimes by a no less expressive silence.
Selected English Letters
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And when we have the ability to exercise force it allows us to leverage our power in direct proportion to the moral disapprobation of the rest of the world.
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Yet such was her distress I was sorry for her, though I believed it to be rooted and grounded in falsity, and that she had no need to regard with such disapprobation her sister's being indebted to an English gentleman who gave her in all honour the best he had.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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People go to these restaurants in search of both "modest risk" and "approbation," Mr. Stewart says, perhaps in the form of an uni handroll.
Sushi Bullies
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He tasted the wine of audience approbation.
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M. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condition at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M. Waldman.
Chapter 5
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The world hath often compared to the theatre; and many grave writers, as well as the poets, have considered human life as a great drama, resembling, in almost every particular, those scenical representations which Thespis is first reported to have invented, and which have been since received with so much approbation and delight in all polite countries.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Meanwhile local farmers held a meeting at the Black Horse in Skipton to discuss the new regulations which had been met with universal disapprobation.
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The play received the approbation of the mass media.
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Her talk wasn't vague approbation or disapproval, some big show of emotion.
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The end result is an unremarkable, unmemorable movie that deserves neither praise nor approbation.
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And they don't get very much approbation for it.
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When Walchendorp, the President of the Council, kicked his favourite hound, it was no proof of irritability of character that Tycho expressed in strong terms his disapprobation of the deed.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
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He's not in the back room somewhere, is he, feeding funds and silent approbation to the gunmen?
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Thus, a vast concern is expressed for the liberty of the press, and the utmost abhorrence of its licentiousness: but then, by the licentiousness of the press is meant every disclosure by which any abuse is brought to light and exposed to shameby the liberty of the press is meant only publications from which no such inconvenience is to be apprehended; and the fallacy consists in employing the sham approbation of liberty as a mask for the real opposition to all free discussion.
Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
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Everybody seemed to be waiting for him to speak, looking at him for approbation.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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You can knock on the back door at Tom's starting at 6: 00AM for your tequila and, as far as community approbation is concerned, have the staff serve your drink in a coffee cup and say stuff like 'Y'all sho make a mighty fine cup o' swill, Tom, how 'bout a refill. 'when you need more.
Taxes
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Here the witness paused with every appearance of looking for some token of disapprobation from the crowd.
The Filigree Ball
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No technological innovation except nuclear power has engendered more public disapprobation than genetically modified food, particularly in Europe, where the anti-GM movement is huge.
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The Catechism has not of course the authority of conciliary definitions or other primary symbols of faith; for, although decreed by the Council, it was only published a year after the Fathers had dispersed, and it consequently lacks a formal conciliary approbation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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There are no prizes for guessing what value he places on each: bourgeois is always a term of abuse, revolutionary almost always a term of approbation.
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The whiff of approbation dissipates only slowly upon her departure.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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If it were not for those like you the BBC would not have felt bias was an issue, your hate has only bred more hate and what have you achieved?, so forgive me if I don't care for your approbation, not that of the asinine "resistor" who objects to the sound of "silence" phil
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Patrick Riley arrived here a few days after the term commenced, and has conducted himself in such a manner as to win the approbation of all his teachers.
Bertie and the Gardeners or, The Way to be Happy
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I returned the communion vessels because, in a newspaper interview I read, you expressed your disapprobation of that particular theft.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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But in making the government they left this institution with many clear marks of disapprobation upon it.
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His words came out in a seemingly endless flow of support and approbation.
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Even when a loud "cloop" in the dark passageway to the kitchen told that another bottle was being opened as the omelet came in, borne aloft by white-robed Suey, crowned with red poppies and blue blazes, and set triumphantly before the mistress of the feast, Harris could detect no flutter of disapprobation.
Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
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This alarmed so much, that the predetermined vote of acquittal or approbation was forced to be dropped, and to their great astonishment the late cabinet is not thanked parliamentarily for having lost Minorca.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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It has been a term hitherto used to signify that which pleases us we know not why, and in our approbation of which we can justify ourselves only by the concurrence of numbers, without much power of en - forcing our opinion upon others by any argument but example and authority.
The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
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Mr. Stiggins began to sigh in a dismal manner, he plainly evinced his disapprobation of the whole proceedings, by sundry incoherent ramblings of speech, among which frequent angry repetitions of the word 'gammon' were alone distinguishable to the ear.
The Pickwick Papers
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If he could only have been sure of her moral exemption from taint, a generous ardour, in reserve behind his anxious dubieties, would have precipitated Dudley to quench disapprobation and brave the world under a buckler of those monetary advantages, which he had but stoutly to plead with the House of
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Unbelief is the rejection, neglect, non-admission, or disapprobation of it, on the terms whereon, and for the ends for which, it is so proposed.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
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I do hope you will come here in Iron Duke soon, it would do us from top to bottom great honour to know that we have earned your approbation ….
Castles of Steel
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Little brother strange elder brother is too inequitable, disapprobation.
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He tasted the wine of audience approbation.
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She said she was niece to a pewterer of considerable circumstances, not far from Tower Hill, who had promised, and was able to give her five hundred pounds; but the fear of disobliging him by marriage, hindered her from thinking of becoming a wife without his approbation of her spouse.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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The bills which they approve shall become law from the time of such approbation, and shall then be returned to, or demandable by, the clerk of the House of
Notes on the State of Virginia
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There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curios their standing in the world.
XII. Essays. Manners. 1844
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Here the edifying conversation was interrupted by a loud explosive expletive from the buttery, which showed that my grandmother was listening with anything but approbation.
Oldtown Folks
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That this comedy was printed during his abfence from his country, he appears to have confix dered as injurious to his reputation; though, during the fuppreffion of the theatres, it was fometimcs pri - vately adted with fuffi? ient approbation.
The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes. ..
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However, Shakespeare's attempts to locate himself within a literary tradition were not always met with such approbation.
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The writer is expecting a certain amount of attention and courtesy and interest and perhaps approbation, but it always seems to be a kind of Roman arena sometimes, where the writer is thrown in to be savaged.
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The council has finally indicated its approbation of the plans.
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Practically, this could be difficult given security concerns and, I suspect, some fair general approbation in smaller, more conservative communities.
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The King received the official approbation of the church.
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On the meeting of the legislature, the house of representatives expressed in pointed terms their disapprobation of the conduct of the governor.
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
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I shall put moral indignation - or, more weakly, moral disapprobation - in the centre of this one.
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The hubristic lure of approbation was what got me in the end.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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There is an unmistakable note of approbation here, even admiration; unusual for the museum except where the activist agenda is involved.
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The black-eyed and pretty Provencale courtesied with due decorum, and glanced at the handsome young Englishman with an eye of approbation; but, whether afraid of his character as a philosopher, or his doubtful rank, added the saving clause, — “If my mother approves.”
Anne of Geierstein
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Given that they are the focus of the media, soccer players should, in my opinion, refrain from playing pranks that might incur national disapprobation, and, what's more, sully their reputation as the elite of society.
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Everybody seemed to be waiting for him to speak, looking at him for approbation.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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I anticipate nothing but grateful approbation.
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At this juncture La Flitche nodded his head in approbation, and she went on.
CHAPTER 28
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‘I am wealthier than you’ as an attitude among youth earns our immediate disapprobation.
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The King received the official approbation of the church.
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He expressed in the strongest terms his disapprobation of his brotherÕs conduct; assured Maria, she should never want a protector whilst he lived; that when he was settled, if she liked it, she should come to him, and if he should marry, it should be such a woman as would love and be kind to his sister.
Simple Facts; or, the History of an Orphan
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Instances of such normal, natural, perfect co-operation occur in the five Lateran councils, which were presided over by the pope in person; the personal presence of the highest authority in the Church, his direction of the deliberations, and approbation of the decrees, stamp the conciliary proceedings throughout as the function of the Magisterium Ecclesiae in its most authoritative form.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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In 1809 Beckford showed his approbation or his laziness by reissuing Henley's translation, with many corrections under his own name.
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The latter acknowledged his sense and approbation of what was said to him by an assentient and expressive "Ugh!" which came from his chest without any apparent emotion of the lips, much in the manner of a modern ventriloquist.
Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete)
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In the preface Platina not only avoids any antagonism towards the Church but even refers with approbation to the punishing of heretics and schismatics by the popes, which is the best proof that Sixtus IV, by his marks of favour, had won Platina for the interests of the Church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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It sounded simply wonderful; already her head was nodding in approbation.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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There are actors who would give away back teeth for this kind of disapprobation.
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He retorted with a disapprobation of shallow criticism.
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The King received the official approbation of the church.
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We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation.
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You must know that though I should be exceedingly grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate.
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I was confronted with the official ultimatum and _sine quâ non_, and have subsequently learnt that the cause of this self-denying ordinance is due to the uncontrollable enthusiasm of British Public for works of art, which leads them to signify approbation by puncturing innumerable orifices by dint of sticks or umbrellas in the process of pointing out tit-bits of painting, and on account of the detrimental influence on the marketable value of pictures thus distinguished by the plerophory of the _Vox Populi_.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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Judge Field presided at a session of magistrates at Parramatta, when Eagar attempted to act as counsel: this was prevented by the court; and the judge, as chairman, expressed himself, in reference to Eagar, in terms of severe disapprobation and contempt, stigmatising him as a common _barrator_, or mover of quarrels, whom the
The History of Tasmania , Volume II
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There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.
Essays: Second Series (1844)
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She wished to have conversed first upon the affairs of Eugenia with Edgar: but to name to him whither she was herself going, when she could not possibly name why; to give to him a surprise that must recoil upon herself in disapprobation, was more than she could endure.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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We avail ourselves of the first opportunity which has been afforded us, of expressing our entire disapprobation of the style and manner of discussing public measures in this Colony.
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It is wholly unsurprising that in the macho world of sports that an item like this would gain attention and approbation.
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APPLAUDIR, battre des mains en signe d'approbation; louer; approuver.
French Conversation and Composition
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He believes episcopacy to be of apostolic origin and to have received divine approbation, if not direct command.
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The term prioress is properly applied only to a superioress in a convent which has the papal approbation and whose members make solemn profession, that is, to convents which belong to an order in the strict sense of the word.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Society under the name of the 'Royal Academy of Arts in London,' graciously declaring himself the patron, protector, and supporter thereof, and commanding it should be established under the forms and regulations thereinafter set forth, which had been humbly laid before his Majesty, and had received his royal assent and approbation.
Art in England Notes and Studies
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The whiff of approbation dissipates only slowly upon her departure.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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And yet every day one saw more distinctly that they were the pea in the thimblerig of life, the hub of a universe which, to the approbation of the majority they represented, they were fast making uninhabitable.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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Not only were the most daring works of architecture entrusted to him, but all other important building operations, and, in general, all artistic undertakings depended on his initiative and approbation, as the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and of the loggie and the stanze, or halls, of the Vatican.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Here my memory fails me, but I remember that, stimulated by Miss Deborah's approbation, I did commit the whole of them to memory at the time, and repeated them with a readiness and fluency which drew upon me warm commendations from the dear old lady, and in fact from all in the house, though Ellery Davenport did shrug his shoulders contumaciously and give a sort of suppressed whistle of dissent.
Oldtown Folks
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When a pleasing storey or adventure is heard or witnessed, and they wish to express their approbation, instead of saying _shabash!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827
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For this purpose every seducement and fallacy is sought, the hopes still rest upon some new experiment till life is at an end; and the last hour steals on unperceived, while the faculties are engaged in resisting reason, and repressing the sense of the Divine disapprobation.
The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
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Unlike those who were angling for jobs or social approbation or credibility among the beltway elites, we just said what we thought.
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Social incentives are the most powerful forces in our world - the reason you can't wear your underwear on your head is because of disapprobation.
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My duty to him was my point of honour; his disapprobation was the one thing which I could not bear.
Apologia pro Vita Sua
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Thus he established the peasant proprietorship, and won approbation and support of the overwhelming majority of the population.
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There are no prizes for guessing what value he places on each: bourgeois is always a term of abuse, revolutionary almost always a term of approbation.
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I should have expected that this foreknowledge should have been resolved rather into a middle or conditionate prescience than into this pre-approbation, but that our great masters were pleased (in the place newly cited), though without any attempt of proof, to carry it another way.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Indeed, women's encouragement and approbation of violent acts in war have added to men's satisfaction in committing these acts.
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The hubristic lure of approbation was what got me in the end.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Thus, while approbation for the less fit is a great idea, the actions that would be required to get a *true* measure of one's fitness going into the eventgetting someone to step on a scale, bodyfat composition testing, etc would probably deter many from participating.
Economics and charity runs, Eric Crampton | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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That the sixteenth chapter of Mr.G. did not excite the same or greater disapprobation, is a proof of the unphilosophical and indeed fanatical animosity against Christianity, which was so prevalent during the latter part of the eighteenth century. —
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The fall of seventeenth-century art into critical disapprobation was not soon remedied.
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The elder Mr. Weller observed these signs and tokens with many manifestations of disgust, and when, after a second jug of the same, Mr. Stiggins began to sigh in a dismal manner, he plainly evinced his disapprobation of the whole proceedings, by sundry incoherent ramblings of speech, among which frequent angry repetitions of the word 'gammon' were alone distinguishable to the ear.
The Pickwick papers
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Upon completion of the reference to the Master, her determination and approval, shall require approbation by this court.
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Broadly speaking, it's unfeminist, which is why young women are frowned on for stripping off, but this disapprobation is misplaced.
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This stylistic donnybrook - one of hip-hop's most distinctive - has been met with equal parts approbation and bafflement.
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His words came out in a seemingly endless flow of support and approbation.
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To call a new cause — I have the pleasure to tell you, that Alan has passed his private Scots Law examinations with good approbation — a great relief to my mind; especially as worthy Mr. Pest told me in my ear there was no fear of ‘the callant’, as he familiarly called him, which gives me great heart.
Redgauntlet
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From the approbation his Lordship has bestowed upon persistent law-breakers, we cannot feel any confidence that he will exercise his authority to stem the tide of unreasoning sacerdotalism.
Bishop of the Poor: Edward King reinvented the role of diocesan bishop
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His words came out in a seemingly endless flow of support and approbation.
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Usury was but one aspect of capital, and met with moral and legal disapprobation.
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Having assured my fellow-traveller of my unqualified approbation of all I had witnessed, there was a short pause, during which he employed himself in cutting from a cake of honeydew a small plug about half an inch square; this went to replace one which he deposited unpleasantly near my feet.
The Civil War in America
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What would be the consequence if United States should now decide that it it simply cannot risk the worldwide disapprobation that would be involved in a military exercise against Iraq and backed off?
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A red star, mark of extreme approbation, blazed, albeit smudgily (for Alice had wept over it in secret joy during the major part of the dinner hour), on the front page of Alice’s notes.
Laurels are Poison
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W - W ANKER - Term or endearment and approbation as used by old school friends of Asian activists showing deep appreciation of their careers trading on skin pigment
Minor Familar`s Dictionary
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Yet there's no widely used term of approbation for the other kind of reporting.
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It sounded simply wonderful; already her head was nodding in approbation.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The bills which they approve shall become law from the time of such approbation, and shall then be returned to, or demandable by, the clerk of the House of Delegates, to be filed of record in his office.
Notes on the State of Virginia.
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The moral disapprobation of the US did not faze the Indian leadership at all.
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Imagine needing the comfort of popular approbation so badly that you would voluntarily comb through movie award nominations in search of comforting zeitgeist pellets!
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Charles assured her that she should want for nothing, and commended her for coming to him, and expressed in no measured terms his disapprobation of his father's cruel conduct, but was abruptly silenced by Louisa falling senseless on the floor.
Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma
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Parliament; that nobody there had a greater esteem for him, with which I hoped that the innocent freedom I had taken to speak my mind was not inconsistent; that as to the non-admission of the herald, had it not been for the motion made by M. Broussel, I should have fallen into the snare through overcredulity, and have given my vote for that which might perhaps have ended in the destruction of the city, and involved myself in what has since fully proved to be a crime by the Queen's late solemn approbation of the contrary conduct; and that, as to the envoy, I was silent till I saw most of them were for giving him audience, when I thought it better to vote the same way than vainly to contest it.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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There the wind whistled too, "whiles," with the fall approbation of snow birds and chickadees, -- the three going out of fashion together.
Say and Seal, Volume II
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On the other hand, what we call greatness of mind is the object of another most of approbation, than superior understanding.
Human Nature and Other Sermons
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The approbation he received when he took off in an amazingly cool style was the loudest heard that afternoon.