approving

• If it were for want of sympathy--approving sympathy--the child drooped and pined, must she not have it, willy-nilly? —  Elsie Marley, Honey
• And he began to search in his memory for what vexation had crossed him, as we question a sick man to discover the cause of his fever His mind was at once irritable and sober; he got excited, then he reasoned, approving or blaming his impulses; but in time primitive nature at last proved the stronger; the sensitive man always had the upper hand over the intellectual man. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
• Not till the last man had had his say did he begin to speak, approving, suggesting, directing, moulding in his facile hands the incongruous and disjointed mass of information and opinion into a rounded whole. —  Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia
• My favour at her breast The dropping of the daylight in the west The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace--all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech Or blush, at least We, like the envoy, sit in mute amazement and repulsion, listening to the Duke, looking at the Duchess. —  Browning's Heroines
• His action in adopting or approving is called the RATIFYING of an agent's act; and when this is done the agent's action is just as valid as though authority had been given to him to act in the beginning. —  Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)

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