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English
Etymology
From dis- + approbation.
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Noun
disapprobation (countable and uncountable, plural disapprobations)
- An act or expression of condemnation or disapproval, especially on moral grounds.
1749, Henry Fielding, “What arrived while the Company were at Breakfast, with some Hints concerning the Government of Daughters”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume V, London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book XIII, page 48:Though a gentle Sigh which ſtole from the Boſom of Nancy, ſeemed to argue ſome ſecret Diſapprobation of theſe Sentiments, ſhe did not dare openly to oppoſe them.
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XXII, in Pride and Prejudice: , volume I, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 287:Elizabeth would wonder, and probably would blame her; and though her resolution was not to be shaken, her feelings must be hurt by such disapprobation.
1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter X, in Duty and Inclination: , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 131:Believe me, I have no warmer sentiment to bestow; and even if I had I could not indulge it, since it would meet with the decided disapprobation of my family, and never could I bring myself to act in opposition to them.
1859, John Stuart Mill, “Applications”, in On Liberty, London: John W Parker and Son, , →OCLC, page 140:And not only these acts, but the dispositions which lead to them, are properly immoral, and fit subjects of disapprobation which may rise to abhorrence.
1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “As Far as Palermo”, in Sea and Sardinia, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 21:No one seems to think so, however. Yet they view my arrival with a knapsack on my back with cold disapprobation, as unseemly as if I had arrived riding on a pig. I ought to be in a carriage, and the knapsack ought to be a new suitcase.
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- “disapprobation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “disapprobation”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “disapprobation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.