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Approbatory

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ap·pro·bate  (pr-bt)
tr.v. ap·pro·bat·ed, ap·pro·bat·ing, ap·pro·bates
To sanction officially; authorize.

[Middle English approbaten, from Latin approbre, approbt-, to approve; see approve.]

appro·bative, ap·proba·tory (-prb-tôr, -tr) adj.
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Adj.1.approbatory - expressing or manifesting praise or approval; "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod"
favorable, favourable - encouraging or approving or pleasing; "a favorable reply"; "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression"


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65) While such comments may appear approbatory they must be seen in the context of a long history of racialising athletic ability, particularly given that the physical occupies a social space in strict opposition to the cerebral and scientific.
Tocqueville's approbatory mention of the absence of capital cities in America, daft as it may seem to modern ears, is essentially an expression of this French politician's fear of political centralization in Paris, which he traced from the French Revolution, through the Napoleonic Empire, and down to the reign of Charles X.
Almost every approbatory estimation of Rivers takes note of his countercultural assiduity--all the painters and poets, the women, the men, the saxes, the syringes--and the Corcoran has made a particularly heavy investment in the myth.
 
 
 
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