Disapprobation

Tho every Man who hears this scheme conceives at once the most contemptible Opinion of it, yet no one chuses to shew his Disapprobation of it.

John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961

Disapprobation and distrust had merged into abuse and persecution.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Disapprobation hurt me, I found, — even that of people whom I did not admire.

My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Disapprobation hurt me, I found -- even that of people whom I did not admire.

My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Disapprobation has ever been a powerful stimulus to the Saxon mind.

Americans and Others Agnes Repplier 1904

Disapprobation or ridicule, from our sensitiveness on this head, causes shyness and blushing much more readily than does approbation; though the latter with some persons is highly efficient.

The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1898

And this is a Distinction which, when this Comedy was acted at Whitehall, King William's Queen Mary was pleased to make in favour of Monfort, notwithstanding her Disapprobation of the Play.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

My Excuse was so well taken that I never after found any ill Consequences, or heard of the least Disapprobation of it: And the whole Body of Actors, too, protesting against such an Abuse of their Profession, our cautious Master was too much alarm'd and intimidated to repeat it.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

Satire was chiefly employ'd on the Enemies of the Government, they were not so hardy as to own themselves such by any higher Disapprobation or Resentment.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

Now, the Judgment of Leigh always guarded the happier Sallies of his Fancy from the least Hazard of Disapprobation: he seem'd not to court, but to attack your Applause, and always came off victorious; nor did his highest Assurance amount to any more than that just Confidence without which the commendable Spirit of every good Actor must be abated; and of this Spirit Leigh was a most perfect Master.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889