approvingly

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English

Etymology

From approving +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

approvingly (comparative more approvingly, superlative most approvingly)

  1. in an approving manner.
    • 2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6:
      In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.

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