Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That expresses disapprobation: as, a disapprobative frown.
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These terms are neither approbative nor disapprobative in themselves.
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Now every instinct-impulse is either positive or negative, hence conscience is either approbative or disapprobative; as disapprobative it is religious aversion, — an instinctive impulse toward the counterworking of the sin (hence stings of conscience); as approbative it is the religious appetite.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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It erodes whatever disapprobative value might still be left to the term, leaving its use cheap and worthy only of community agitators and other demagogues.
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