approbative

How To Use approbative In A Sentence

• A more concise, equally accurate but less approbative way of putting this would be simply that he "smokes. The Recount Culture
• Though most of these meanings are admittedly not approbative, the first sense, ‘undiluted,’ may carry with it the suggestion of primal energy.
• If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing archaeological reconstruction.
• If the first, then they cannot intend any but those moral powers who are said to be of God, in respect of his approbative and preceptive will. 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
• If I were someone else, likely the first approbative thing I'd say is, ‘I really like his cooking.’
• Of these three kinds of ethics the third, the approbative, is the one held in situation ethics.
• God is to be overthrown, then providence must be expressive of God's approbative ordination, equally as his revealed will is. 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
• The speaker, in choosing a pejorative term rather than an approbative term (say, ‘willowy’), manifests disapproval of ‘she.’
• If then this distinction is denied, and the providential will of God asserted to be declarative of his preceptive, and so of his approbative will; it remains to be manifested, where and how it has been appointed of God for such an end, an end that is by the Spirit of God denied unto it: _Eccl. _ ix, 1, 2, 4. 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
• Will he strike his ebony wood staff angrily on the floor, frightening him by the incoherent violence of his exclamations; or will he squat down with a good-humoured smile, and, rubbing his hands gently over his stomach with a familiar gesture, expectorate copiously into the brass siri-vessel, giving vent to a low, approbative murmur? Almayer's Folly