approbatory , also: approbative

She put her hand on his forearm gently, with the approbatory gesture of a princess.

Both Catherine and Voltaire wrote to each other in generally approbatory tones.

The Duc muttered a slight oath, decidedly approbatory.

Haughey was using the phrase "an Irish solution to an Irish problem" in the same approbatory sense as before.

- was widely quoted, and the term horse trading came into use as an approbatory term for what others would deem ethically dubious business practices.

Formed in 1984, they were part of the first generation of worldwide thrashers, and gained prominence as the decade ended and musical tastes turned approbatory for more extreme metal.

Davis also criticized the popular-press and the literary-journal book reviews of The Mismeasure of Man as generally approbatory; whereas, most scientific-journal book reviews were generally critical.

After the suppression of the uprising, President Jozef Tiso arrived at the square in October 1944 for an approbatory ceremony to decorate German soldiers who defeated the Slovak insurgents.

Etymologically, the proper name of the mountain is Meru (Pāli Neru), to which is added the approbatory prefix su-, resulting in the meaning "excellent Meru" or "wonderful Meru".