approbatory

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Etymology tree

English approbate

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -tōriusder.

Middle English -orie

English -ory

English approbatory

approbatory (comparative more approbatory, superlative most approbatory)

Tending to approve or confirm.
- 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 54:
  He also failed to notice that approbatory terms such as 'humanism', 'liberation', the 'greatness' or 'sublimity' of the socialist ideal-all of which he often employed-were inadmissible on his own premisses.

approbative — see approbative