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- noun Plural form of
approbation .
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Examples
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Conservatoire, White won all the "approbations," and wreaths and laurels were given him.
Music and Some Highly Musical People James M. Trotter 1867
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I noticed it while reading about the Incarnation in the Mystical City of God, an autobiography of the Holy Family that has numerous approbations.
TEXAS FAITH: What's the role of religion in public education? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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As with all approbations, private revelation can be believed, but belief is not mandatory.
TEXAS FAITH: What's the role of religion in public education? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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Because of a source with many approbations of the Catholic Church, I take exception with his timetable of the derivation of the Gospels. the frst Gospel, Matthew was written in Hebrew in Judea in 42.
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What I quoted has numerous approbations and comes from private revelation but is considered an autobiography of the Holy Family dictated to Venerable Mother Mary of Agreda by the Mother of God and Almighty God who said it was intended to be reliable truth for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see.
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Ted: You obviously know nothing about The four volume Mystical City of God that was dictated to Mother Mary of Agreda by Almighty God and his Mother considered an autobiography that has many approbations of the Roman Catholic Church with the stipulation that it contains no error.
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Our democracy is based on a rational defense of the civil rights, civil liberties and economic welfare of its citizens, not on the ambiguous and often contradicting approbations and proscriptions of religious texts.
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To these two approbations I truly add my own, which, sans vanite, may perhaps be near as good as the other two.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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I am as supportive of the thrust of those books as when I first wrote those approbations.
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And it is variously attested in precepts, promises, instances, and solemn approbations.
Christologia 1616-1683 1965
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