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Definition of Disapprovers
1. disapprover [n] - See also: disapprover
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disapprovers
Literary usage of Disapprovers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Auchterarder Case: The Earl of Kinnoull, and the Rev. R. Young by Thomas Robert Hay-Drummond Kinnoull, Robert Young, Charles Robertson (1838)
"The disapprovers (ie whatever be their numbers) " are to give in their ...
So that the presbytery was not to be guided by the mere number of disapprovers, ..."
2. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"... had been kindled at London upon the comparative merits of two composers at
London; where riots between the approvers and disapprovers of a new play are, ..."
3. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: Now First by Agnes Strickland (1854)
"... when the prince of Orange, suspecting that Anne Trelawney was among the
disapprovers of his conduct, forced her to return to England at this juncture. ..."
4. The Documentary History of the State of New-York: Arranged Under Direction by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Secretary's Office (1849)
"... butt I listed myne souldiers by still drum & they were frustrated, then the
magistrats who also have been disapprovers of our actiones of securing the ..."
5. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1848)
"He does not, I imagine, class the Secretary of the Navy among its disapprovers,
although he joined in the letter advising its suspension. ..."
6. A Social Theory of Religious Education by George Albert Coe (1917)
"... chapter about keeping the attention of children upon the grounds of social
approval and disapproval rather than upon the approvers and disapprovers. ..."
7. Monthly Review (1798)
"It is not merely as friends to the liberty of the press, but as zealous Christians,
that these disapprovers feel indignant against the.persons by whom this ..."
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