APPROBATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does approbation mean? 

• APPROBATION (noun)
  The noun APPROBATION has 2 senses:

1. official approval

2. official recognition or approval

  Familiarity information: APPROBATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPROBATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Official approval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("approbation" is a kind of...):

approval (a feeling of liking something or someone good)

Derivation:

approbate (accept (documents) as valid)

approbate (approve or sanction officially)

approve (judge to be right or commendable; think well of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Official recognition or approval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("approbation" is a kind of...):

approval; commendation (a message expressing a favorable opinion)

Antonym:

disapprobation (an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable)

Derivation:

approbate (accept (documents) as valid)

approbate (approve or sanction officially)

approve (judge to be right or commendable; think well of)

approve (give sanction to)

 Context examples 

Miss Crawford smiled her perfect approbation; and hastened to complete the gift by putting the necklace round her, and making her see how well it looked.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She had an opportunity now of speaking her approbation while warm from her heart, for he stopped to hand her out.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She liked him too little to care for his approbation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Everything honourable and soothing, every present enjoyment, and every future hope was contained in it; and her acceptance, with only the saving clause of Papa and Mamma's approbation, was eagerly given.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Not by becoming a toil-beast could he win to the heights, was the message the whiskey whispered to him, and he nodded approbation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A date of an official approbation, recognition, or acceptance as satisfactory.

(Approval Date, NCI Thesaurus)

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.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Don Pedro frowned and curled his lip, but the prince smiled and nodded his approbation.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Ambition, love of approbation, sympathy, and much more, I suppose? Well: go along with you!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had no solace from self-approbation: none even from self-respect.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)