self-approbation

A commercial transaction does not confer ethical approbation on a customer.

For them to take a name like that suggests not racism but approbation.

There is a risk to all this approbation, of course, which is that we forget some of his failings.

The word “provocative” is often a term of approbation; here it is clearly intended pejoratively.

One of the things about elites is that they only care about the approbation of the members of their own elites.

To lose a breath of the public approbation in his present state, were to give up fatally the only stay on which he rested.

This was a very strong expression of approbation, and an uncommonly hearty welcome from a person of Mr. Sikess temperament.

Many, therefore, who did not assent to all that the King had said, joined in a loud hum of approbation when he concluded.

There he saw the ceremony of ordination performed, and expressed warm approbation of the Anglican ritual.

Shall he use any means to make his pleasure known, of which men, by giving obedience, will not testify their approbation?