disapprobation love

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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 or disapproval, especially on moral 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

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dis- +‎ approbation

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