disapprobation

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My duty to him was my point of honour; his disapprobation was the one thing which I could not bear.

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  1. noun Moral disapproval; condemnation.

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  • The entire system met with her disapprobation, and afterwards, in her “Rights of Women,” she freely and strongly expressed her unfavorable opinion. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • The presence of the female attendants at the stalls, a sight completely at variance with Asiatic ideas, is also noticed with marked disapprobation--"Most of them were young and handsome, and seemed perfect adepts in the art of selling their various wares; but I could not help reflecting, on seeing so many fine young women engaged in this degrading occupation, on the ease and comfort enjoyed by our females, compared to the drudgery and servile employment to which the sex are subjected in this country. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
  • The entire system met with her disapprobation, and afterwards, in her "Rights of Women," she freely and strongly expressed her unfavorable opinion. —  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Conkling was not present at the time, but subsequently in Arthur's room, where Howard Carroll and several other delegates lingered, he bitterly opposed placing a Stalwart upon the ticket and expressed in unmeasured terms his disapprobation of Arthur's acceptance. —  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
  • Cleanliness the Lord in no wise depreciated; His shafts of disapprobation were aimed at the hypocrisy of maintaining at once outward spotlessness and inward corruption. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
 

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  1. = French désapprobation = Spanish desaprobacion = Portuguese desapprovação = Italian disapprovazione; as dis- privative + approbation.
 

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/dɪsæprəˈbeɪʃən/
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