DISAPPROBATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disapprobation mean? 

• DISAPPROBATION (noun)
  The noun DISAPPROBATION has 1 sense:

1. an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable

  Familiarity information: DISAPPROBATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISAPPROBATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

condemnation; disapprobation

Context example:

his uncompromising condemnation of racism

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

disapproval (the expression of disapproval)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disapprobation"):

animadversion; censure (harsh criticism or disapproval)

demonisation; demonization (to represent as diabolically evil)

Antonym:

approbation (official recognition or approval)

 Context examples 

He was determined to prevent it, if possible, though his mother, who equally heard the conversation which passed at table, did not evince the least disapprobation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“You must know that though I should be exceedingly grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

His disapprobation was expressed, but apparently very little regarded.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She listened closely while he read, and though he from time to time had seen only disapprobation in her face, at the close he asked:-

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This proposal was received with the utmost disapprobation by the whole board.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Jo stood aloof, meanwhile, trying to harden her heart against him, and succeeding only in primming up her face into an expression of entire disapprobation.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was a narrow winding path through a thick grove of old Scotch firs; and Catherine, struck by its gloomy aspect, and eager to enter it, could not, even by the general's disapprobation, be kept from stepping forward.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

To separate Edward and Elinor was as far from being her object as ever; and she wished to show Mrs. John Dashwood, by this pointed invitation to her brother, how totally she disregarded her disapprobation of the match.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When he came to Miss Woodhouse, he was obliged to read the whole of it aloud—all that related to her, with a smile; a look; a shake of the head; a word or two of assent, or disapprobation; or merely of love, as the subject required; concluding, however, seriously, and, after steady reflection, thus—Very bad—though it might have been worse.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As I walked by his side homeward, I read well in his iron silence all he felt towards me: the disappointment of an austere and despotic nature, which has met resistance where it expected submission—the disapprobation of a cool, inflexible judgment, which has detected in another feelings and views in which it has no power to sympathise: in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience: it was only as a sincere Christian he bore so patiently with my perversity, and allowed so long a space for reflection and repentance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)