approvingly

English

Etymology

From approving +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

approvingly (comparative more approvingly, superlative most approvingly)

1. in an approving manner.
   • 2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6:

     In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.

Translations

in an approving manner

• French: (dated) approbativement (fr)
• Polish: aprobująco, aprobatywnie
• Portuguese: aprobatoriamente, aprobativamente
• Russian: одобри́тельно (ru) (odobrítelʹno)
• Spanish: con aprobación
• Ukrainian: схва́льно (sxválʹno)