approbative
adjective
approving; expressing approbation.
approbativeness
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a word derived from
approbative.
Example Sentences
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There is a magnificent moral influence shown in the development of conscientiousness, approbativeness and caution.
From How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony by William Windsor
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 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
To pose a worthy senator as Saint Paul, and a dashing lady of the Court as the Holy Virgin, was most gratifying to the phrenological development of approbativeness of the said senator and lady.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard
