disapprobation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISAPPROBATION, noun [dis and approbation.] A disapproving; dislike; the act of the mind which condemns what is supposed to be wrong, whether the act is expressed or not. We often disapprove, when we do not express disapprobation
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