SYN: Approval, satisfaction, praise, encouragement, confirmation, assent, consent, permission, commendation, concurrence, acceptance.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Et cum tempora temporibus praesentia confert Praeteritis, laudat fortunas saepe parentis, Et crepat antiquum
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

If one could observe the strangely painful, equally coarse and refined comedy of European Christianity with the derisive and impartial eye of an Epicurean god, I should think one would never cease marvelling and laughing; does it not actually seem that some single will has ruled over Europe for eighteen centuries in order to make a SUBLIME ABORTION of man?
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Now, St. Paul explains Charity as signifying, not alms-giving, which is the modern popular meaning, but love—that love which "suffereth long and is kind;" and when, in our lectures on this subject, we speak of it as the greatest of virtues, because, when Faith is lost and Hope has ceased, it extends "beyond the grave to realms of endless bliss," we there refer it to the Divine Love of our Creator.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

But the first reason stated is of a different kind, and affords as neat an instance of self-stultification proceeding ex cathedra as can well be found.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

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— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1950 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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— from Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller For Grades One to Eight by Ernest J. (Ernest James) Ashbaugh

The aromatic odour of the burnt sugar pervaded every crack and cranny, and overwhelmed so entirely the disgusting effluvium, that Robert snuffed at the pleasant fragrance, and remarked, "There, now!
— from The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by F. R. (Francis Robert) Goulding

“Wire in, old man,” said Pilbury, encouragingly; “cut all the jaw, you know, and start with the experiments.
— from The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed

Such wonderful writing they had never seen; such perfect, easy curves and twirls.
— from A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill