Approving: alternatives and connections

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

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Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

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(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acce…

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Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

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Wonder; astonishment.

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The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

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A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

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State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.

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The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ce…

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Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an aut…

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See Reenforcement.

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To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.

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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.

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Approving, or implying approbation.

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Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.

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Approbation; sanction.

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Applauding; manifesting praise.

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