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Definition of Approves
1. approve [v] - See also: approve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Approves
Literary usage of Approves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1838)
"... elegant pictures) esteems carp no better than a slimy watery meat. , on the
other side, disallowing tench, approves of it; so doth books of fish-ponds. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The esteem of a prince who possesses the virtues which he approves, is the noblest
recompence of a deserving subject ; and the authority which Julian ..."
3. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"Chapter 11 Clearing Hurdles: The President approves A New Plan The difficulties
with the November 1985 HAWK shipment and the failure to secure the release ..."
4. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"approves of President Andrew Johnson. — Sails with family for Europe. — Paris
Exposition of 1867. — Descriptions of festivities. — Cyrus W. Field. ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The latter approves itself by the revealed will of God; the former may be attempted
only on the basis of coherent reflection upon the facts of experience. ..."
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