Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Moral disapproval; condemnation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling or utterance; disapproval; censure, expressed or unexpressed.
- noun Synonyms Disapprobation and Disapproval show the same difference as approbation and approval. See
approbation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An act or expression of
condemnation ordisapproval , especially onmoral grounds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here the witness paused with every appearance of looking for some token of disapprobation from the crowd.
The Filigree Ball 1903
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She wished to have conversed first upon the affairs of Eugenia with Edgar: but to name to him whither she was herself going, when she could not possibly name why; to give to him a surprise that must recoil upon herself in disapprobation, was more than she could endure.
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That the sixteenth chapter of Mr.G. did not excite the same or greater disapprobation, is a proof of the unphilosophical and indeed fanatical animosity against Christianity, which was so prevalent during the latter part of the eighteenth century. —
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Charles assured her that she should want for nothing, and commended her for coming to him, and expressed in no measured terms his disapprobation of his father's cruel conduct, but was abruptly silenced by Louisa falling senseless on the floor.
Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma Maude Alma
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You will come here; you will observe what the artists are doing; and you will sometimes speak a disapprobation in plain words, and sometimes by a no less expressive silence.
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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My duty to him was my point of honour; his disapprobation was the one thing which I could not bear.
Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845
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My duty to him was my point of honour; his disapprobation was the one thing which I could not bear.
Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845
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When Walchendorp, the President of the Council, kicked his favourite hound, it was no proof of irritability of character that Tycho expressed in strong terms his disapprobation of the deed.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler David Brewster 1824
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On the meeting of the legislature, the house of representatives expressed in pointed terms their disapprobation of the conduct of the governor.
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He expressed in the strongest terms his disapprobation of his brotherÕs conduct; assured Maria, she should never want a protector whilst he lived; that when he was settled, if she liked it, she should come to him, and if he should marry, it should be such a woman as would love and be kind to his sister.
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