The phrase "an approbation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an expression of approval or praise, often in formal contexts.
Example: "The committee's decision to grant her an approbation for her research was a significant milestone in her career."
Alternatives: "an endorsement" or "a commendation".
Rhodes notes that offers and threats are asymmetrical: while an offer requires only a slight approbation, a high degree of disapprobation is required before a proposal can be called a threat.
3 1 Consequently we, observing that writers of history are accorded a merited approbation, were led to feel a like enthusiasm for the subject.
Most winning programme of the week was undoubtedly A World Without Down's Syndrome?, in which Sally Phillips, with quizzical wit and just the right salting of lip-trembling anger, asked whether we're right to hail with such a blizzard of approbation a new non-invasive test for pregnant mothers.
How can there be an impression of approbation for a tragic play?
The council itself, however, did not endorse Cyril's anathemas in its final proceedings, apparently as a token approbation of Theodoret.
Most poets who portray human events in a narrative or dramatic form take themselves apart, and exact from their readers a blind approbation or condemnation of whatever side they choose to support or oppose….
In his discussion of it he suggests the reason for the difficulty of Shakespeare's plays and for the quarrelsome, irreconcilable "interpretations" among Shakespeare's commentators: Most poets who portray human events in a narrative or dramatic form take themselves apart, and exact from their readers a blind approbation or condemnation of whatever side they choose to support or oppose….
Beauty is a feeling of approbation, and an original, simple impression of the mind.
It can explain neither election, an agent's determination to an action, nor approbation, the spectator's evaluation of an action.
A moral distinction, therefore, immediately arises; a general sentiment of blame and approbation; a tendency, however faint, to the objects of the one, and a proportionable aversion to those of the other.
