approbatory

How To Use approbatory In A Sentence

• Perhaps someday it will return to Victoria's inner harbour and enlighten the city with approbatory friendly fire in greedy pursuit of our oil, gas, and fresh water.
• The special wine stored in Odysseus's palace against his return is described in approbatory fashion as ‘aged’; and the wine that Nestor brings out in honor of Telemachos is, we are told, 11 years old.
• Stunning" was not one of my words, though of course I was approbatory. The Scandal of 'Ulysses'
• Mrs. Moore could speak — Very true, however, was all she said, with a motion of her head that expressed the bow-approbatory. Clarissa Harlowe
• (Chorus of giggles and approbatory nods from the sympathizing audience of fifty.) The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• Or maybe German readers are just more polite about sending approbatory messages to favourite authors. :Acquired Taste
• In discussing the translation of his work, he was extremely approbatory.
• Some reviewers of my book took exception to the approbatory tone in which I described this popular religion.
• That they endeavour to procure from the National Government the appropriation of adequate funds to aid the voluntary emigration of all emancipated people of colour, to any country where a suitable asylum may be found: and that, as an auxiliary means, they petition the state legislature for the passage of resolutions approbatory of such measure. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
• Even Ken Follett, whose truly appalling novel World Without End befouled my mind for a fortnight, can been seen to have a positive effect; when I was reading some reviews to see if anyone else thought it as bad as I did, I came across a couple of approbatory references to Sharon Kay Penman, along the lines of "this is how it should be done". :Acquired Taste