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Definition
approval - often official
- "Yes, Phoebe is a nice girl!" said Hepzibah, with a scowl of austere approbation.Chapter 5 — May and November (78% in)
- "I like that, Cousin Phoebe!" cried he, with an emphatic nod of approbation.Chapter 8 — The Pyncheon of To-day (28% in)
- As for Uncle Venner, as a mark of friendship and approbation, he readily consented to afford the young man his countenance in the way of his profession,—not metaphorically, be it understood, but literally, by allowing a daguerreotype of his face, so familiar to the town, to be exhibited at the entrance of Holgrave's studio.Chapter 10 — The Pyncheon Garden (91% in)
There are no more uses of "approbation" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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