approvingly

adv

approvingly

adv

Etymology From approving + -ly.

1

in an approving manner.

In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6:

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