approbatory

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Amazement, approbatory or the reverse, at this spectacle is the beginning of surprises which the spectral visitor would find in store.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

So she gave Mr. Money a good deal of information, which he received with an approbatory "Yes, yes" or an inquiring "So, so" every now and then.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various

Robespierre, at first approbatory, knew not at last what to think; then thought, with his Jacobins, that Camille must be expelled.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Perhaps something of this kind is to be found in the approbatory response, from which the French are said to have made up the word Iroquois.

From An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem by Hosmer, William H. C. (William Howe Cuyler)

Mrs. Colesworthy enfolded her in an approbatory embrace, and hurried home to tell me about it.

From Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences by Stockton, Frank Richard