approbation
/ˌaprəˈbeɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun] formal
Approval or praise: a term of approbation...
- His participation in the parade implies acceptance, approval, approbation.
- The end result is an unremarkable, unmemorable movie that deserves neither praise nor approbation.
- There are no prizes for guessing what value he places on each: bourgeois is always a term of abuse, revolutionary almost always a term of approbation.
Synonyms
approval, acceptance, assent, endorsement, encouragement, recognition, appreciation, support, respect, admiration, commendation, congratulations;
praise, acclamation, adulation, regard, esteem, veneration, kudos, applause, ovation, accolades, salutes, plaudits
rare laudation
Derivatives
approbative
- Of these three kinds of ethics the third, the approbative, is the one held in situation ethics.
- If I were someone else, likely the first approbative thing I'd say is, ‘I really like his cooking.’
- If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing archaeological reconstruction.
approbatory
/ adjective ...- Perhaps someday it will return to Victoria's inner harbour and enlighten the city with approbatory friendly fire in greedy pursuit of our oil, gas, and fresh water.
- The special wine stored in Odysseus's palace against his return is described in approbatory fashion as ‘aged’; and the wine that Nestor brings out in honor of Telemachos is, we are told, 11 years old.
- Here, ‘diamond’ is approbatory, so the overall sense is ‘a good sort’.
Origin
Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin approbatio(n-), from the verb approbare (see approbate).