All 19 Uses
approbation
in
Mansfield Park
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- Mr. Rushworth then began to propose Mr. Crawford's doing him the honour of coming over to Sotherton, and taking a bed there; when Mrs. Norris, as if reading in her two nieces' minds their little approbation of a plan which was to take Mr. Crawford away, interposed with an amendment.
Chpt 6approbation = approval
- The next meeting of the two Mansfield families produced another alteration in the plan, and one that was admitted with general approbation.
Chpt 8 *
- I do not wonder at your disapprobation, upon my word.†
Chpt 11disapprobation = disapprovalstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disapprobation reverses the meaning of approbation. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
- He was determined to prevent it, if possible, though his mother, who equally heard the conversation which passed at table, did not evince the least disapprobation.†
Chpt 13
- Their mother had no objection to the plan, and they were not in the least afraid of their father's disapprobation.†
Chpt 13
- Mrs. Norris related again her triumph over Dick Jackson, but neither play nor preparation were otherwise much talked of, for Edmund's disapprobation was felt even by his brother, though he would not have owned it.†
Chpt 15
- And would Edmund's judgment, would his persuasion of Sir Thomas's disapprobation of the whole, be enough to justify her in a determined denial in spite of all the rest?†
Chpt 16
- But still it has not your approbation.
Chpt 16approbation = approval
- Give me your approbation, then, Fanny.
Chpt 16
- She was invested, indeed, with the office of judge and critic, and earnestly desired to exercise it and tell them all their faults; but from doing so every feeling within her shrankâshe could not, would not, dared not attempt it: had she been otherwise qualified for criticism, her conscience must have restrained her from venturing at disapprobation.†
Chpt 18disapprobation = disapprovalstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disapprobation reverses the meaning of approbation. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
- Not that she was incommoded by many fears of Sir Thomas's disapprobation when the present state of his house should be known, for her judgment had been so blinded that, except by the instinctive caution with which she had whisked away Mr. Rushworth's pink satin cloak as her brother-in-law entered, she could hardly be said to shew any sign of alarm; but she was vexed by the manner of his return.†
Chpt 19
- A few minutes were enough for such unsatisfactory sensations on each side; and Sir Thomas having exerted himself so far as to speak a few words of calm approbation in reply to an eager appeal of Mr. Yates, as to the happiness of the arrangement, the three gentlemen returned to the drawing-room together, Sir Thomas with an increase of gravity which was not lost on all.
Chpt 19approbation = approval
- Miss Crawford smiled her perfect approbation; and hastened to complete the gift by putting the necklace round her, and making her see how well it looked.
Chpt 26
- It was about the necklace, which she was now most earnestly longing to return, and hoped to obtain his approbation of her doing.
Chpt 27
- Everything might be possible rather than serious attachment, or serious approbation of it toward her.
Chpt 31
- He was not intending, however, by such action, to be conveying to her that unqualified approbation and encouragement which her hopes drew from it.
Chpt 34
- Disapprobation, I fear.†
Chpt 34disapprobation = disapprovalstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disapprobation reverses the meaning of approbation. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
- For her approbation, the particular reason of his going into Norfolk at all, at this unusual time of year, was given.
Chpt 41approbation = approval
- She was returned to Mansfield Park, she was useful, she was beloved; she was safe from Mr. Crawford; and when Sir Thomas came back she had every proof that could be given in his then melancholy state of spirits, of his perfect approbation and increased regard; and happy as all this must make her, she would still have been happy without any of it, for Edmund was no longer the dupe of Miss Crawford.
Chpt 48
Definitions:
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(1)
(approbation) approval - often official
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)