approbative

"Ha!" said the stout man, and this time the exclamation was purely approbative.

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

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.

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

He answered, "All power is ordained of God by his provident will, but every power assumed by man is not so by his approbative and preceptive will."