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Approbativeness is an
excessive eagerness to
become the
subject of
approval or praise. One of the rare
examples of the word's use,
appears in a letter...
- the
mountain is Meru (Sanskrit: Meruparvata), to
which is
added the
approbatory prefix su-,
resulting in the
meaning "excellent
Mount Meru" or "sublime...
-
proper name of the
mountain is Meru (Pāli Meru), to
which is
added the
approbatory prefix su-,
resulting in the
meaning "excellent Meru" or "wonderful Meru"...
- to
avoid revealing too much of the truth.
While the idea may have an
approbatory sense of
prudence or diplomacy, the
phrase is
often either used euphemistically...
-
Gladstonian or
Liberal Unionist causes"; on
introduction the term was
mostly approbatory,
unlike Butterfield's
later use,
since Fisher applauded Macaulay's "instructive...
- literary-journal book
reviews of The
Mismeasure of Man as
generally approbatory; whereas, he said that most scientific-journal book
reviews were generally...
- and
gained prominence as the
decade ended and
musical tastes turned approbatory for more
extreme metal. The
genre got many
magazines committed solely...
- Poland. Both
Catherine and
Voltaire wrote to each
other in
generally approbatory tones. Voltaire's
letters to
Catherine have been
described as "a catalogue...
- uprising,
President Jozef Tiso
arrived at the
square in
October 1944 for an
approbatory ceremony to
decorate German soldiers who
defeated the
Slovak insurgents...
-
using the
phrase "an
Irish solution to an
Irish problem" in the same
approbatory sense as before. In the
ensuing Dáil debate,
Fianna Fáil TDs Kit Ahern...
