Usage examples for approbation:

• At the end of the act, there were signs of approbation especially among the young ladies, to whom, though they had not understood a word, it had sounded very fine. "Maximina" – Armando Palacio Valdés

• They had enjoyed a dignified and leisurely engagement, and Amy had bloomed in the sunshine of Murray's approbation "The Gay Cockade" – Temple Bailey

• A hum of approbation ran round the room. "The Red Cockade" – Stanley J. Weyman

• The result of his labors does not appear to have received the entire approbation of the German religious world; the original and unaltered work continues so popular, that no permanent place has been secured for the substitute. "True Christianity" – Johann Arndt