approbative
adjective
approving; expressing approbation.
approbativeness
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a word derived from
approbative.
Example Sentences
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I was greatly impressed when he remarked that I had a large bump of approbativeness and would sometime be an editor.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
The young lady is admirably adapted to the stage, and if she would adopt that profession the very faculty of approbativeness would be her most powerful stimulus in ambition to excel.
From How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony by William Windsor
The only long word I brought away from childhood was approbativeness.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
Then, to tickle the approbativeness of the slave, it was declared a virtue not to work on Sunday, a most pleasing bit of Tom Sawyer diplomacy.
From Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others by Elbert Hubbard
The printer's lad was plainly not lacking in the bump of approbativeness, or the quality of self-assertiveness.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
