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Meanings of approbate in English

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        Antonyms
        Examples for "reprobate"
        Examples for "reprobate"
        1
        Where in the depths of history has the word 'reprobate' gone missing?
        Conquest of the Useless
        2
        Perhaps he passed the night with his friends abusing that reprobate Bonaparte.
        L'Assommoir
        3
        A wickeder boy never lived: nothing could be done with the reprobate.
        The Life of the Fields
        4
        The gods refused as fabulous are not held reprobate on that account.
        Saint Augustin
        5
        That reprobate you were engaged to defied me and defended that woman.
        The Silver Horde
        Usage of approbate in English
        1
        We pick and choose, take and leave, approbate and reprobate in a breath.
        Obiter Dicta
        2
        How do you approbate Turon?'
        Robbery under Arms / A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush a...
        3
        Not that he would approbate the system of slavery; for he was, and in fact had been through life, its most determined foe.
        Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams / Sixth President ...
        4
        Inquire how, and where, they spend their leisure hour's-inwhat company do they mingle-whatpractices do they approbate-what is their general conduct and demeanor?
        Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness / Being...
        5
        In 1826, after three years' study, he was "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association of Ministers.
        Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
        6
        The decision which it was understood the Government had made, not to transfer the care of the Indians to the War Department, was warmly approbated.
        The American Missionary — Volume 45, No. 02, February, 1891
        Frequent collocations
        Approbate through the time