How To Use Approbative In A Sentence
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If then this distinction is denied, and the providential will of God asserted to be declarative of his preceptive, and so of his approbative will; it remains to be manifested, where and how it has been appointed of God for such an end, an end that is by the Spirit of God denied unto it: _Eccl. _ ix, 1, 2, 4.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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These terms are neither approbative nor disapprobative in themselves.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism and Culture
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And the approbative shouts of his half-intoxicated auditors filled his simple soul with delight and pride.
Almayer's Folly
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This time I smiled in good earnest at his fantastic fashion of self-introduction, observing which the blue gentleman swayed me backwards and forwards several times with his right hand, and I felt that if I had been an oak of the forest he would have swayed me just as easily, while he said with a kind of approbative chuckle: 'That's right -- a very good lad; that's right -- a very smart lad.'
Marjorie
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Will he strike his ebony wood staff angrily on the floor, frightening him by the incoherent violence of his exclamations; or will he squat down with a good-humoured smile, and, rubbing his hands gently over his stomach with a familiar gesture, expectorate copiously into the brass siri-vessel, giving vent to a low, approbative murmur?
Almayer's Folly
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The new president of the university arose and eyed him with a peculiarly approbative and grateful gaze.
The Titan
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Never had he been more critical, more approbative.
The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX
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approbative criticism
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Will he strike his ebony wood staff angrily on the floor, frightening him by the incoherent violence of his exclamations; or will he squat down with a good-humoured smile, and, rubbing his hands gently over his stomach with a familiar gesture, expectorate copiously into the brass siri-vessel, giving vent to a low, approbative murmur?
Almayer's Folly
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A more concise, equally accurate but less approbative way of putting this would be simply that he "smokes.
The Recount Culture
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The speaker, in choosing a pejorative term rather than an approbative term (say, ‘willowy’), manifests disapproval of ‘she.’
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God is to be overthrown, then providence must be expressive of God's approbative ordination, equally as his revealed will is.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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Of these three kinds of ethics the third, the approbative, is the one held in situation ethics.
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If I were someone else, likely the first approbative thing I'd say is, ‘I really like his cooking.’
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If the first, then they cannot intend any but those moral powers who are said to be of God, in respect of his approbative and preceptive will.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing archaeological reconstruction.
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Though most of these meanings are admittedly not approbative, the first sense, ‘undiluted,’ may carry with it the suggestion of primal energy.
