Both Uses of
approbation
in
Main Street
- But without the protection of Kennicott's presence she did not go to the Jolly Seventeen; she delivered herself to the judgment of the town only when she went shopping and on the ritualistic occasions of formal afternoon calls, when Mrs. Lyman Cass or Mrs. George Edwin Mott, with clean gloves and minute handkerchiefs and sealskin card-cases and countenances of frozen approbation, sat on the edges of chairs and inquired, "Do you find Gopher Prairie pleasing?"†
Chpt 9
- But he was winning approbation by his liveliness, his gaiety—the qualities least important in him.†
Chpt 30 *
Definition:
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(approbation) approval - often official