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

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

Blackbeard swore at him a great approbative oath.

From Kate Bonnet The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by Stockton, Frank Richard

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

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore

If the distinction between the preceptive and providential will of God is to be overthrown, then providence must be expressive of God's approbative ordination, equally as his revealed will is.

From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by Presbytery, The Reformed