approbate

Example Sentences

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Gracious knows, I don't approbate coarseness, it shocks me, but narvous sensibility makes me sick.

From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

We pick and choose, take and leave, approbate and reprobate in a breath.

From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine

Then if cunning Latin books were translate Into English, well correct and approbate, All subtle science in English might be learned, As well as other people in their own tongues did.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

This is so congenial with the constitution of our own state, that I need not advance any argument to induce the free citizens of Massachusetts to approbate it.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Ford, Paul Leicester

I approbate domestic factories, but nothin further for us.

From The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler