approbative

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His supporters in New York, who range from Mayor Edward Koch to Philanthropist and Civic Leader Brooke Astor, also praise him in what has become an almost monotonously approbative Gregorian chant.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new president of the university arose and eyed him with a peculiarly approbative and grateful gaze.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore

He had both providence turning about the kingdom to him, and also the warrant of the Lord's approbative and preceptive will.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

You are sensitive, approbative, delicately organized; your whole nature inclines you to give way and yield to the nature of those around you.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

Approbativeness has its pole directly outward from these corners, and hence the approbative laugh does not turn the corners of the mouth upward, but draws them straight back, or outwardly.

From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.