Adverb
in an approving manner
Source: WordNetshe nodded approvingly Source: Internet
Gowers (1973), p. x Fraser noted that though Gowers had said approvingly in 1954 that the use of the subjunctive was dying out, it was now, under the influence of American writing, making an unwelcome reappearance in English usage. Source: Internet
He speaks approvingly of this, and other forms of divine madness (drunkenness, eroticism, and dreaming) in the Phaedrus (265a–c), and yet in the Republic wants to outlaw Homer's great poetic art, and laughter as well. Source: Internet
Later years Gillespie performing in 1955 His biographer Alyn Shipton quotes Don Waterhouse approvingly that Gillespie in the fifties "had begun to mellow into an amalgam of his entire jazz experience to form the basis of new classicism". Source: Internet
But when Ferries spoke approvingly of the DU legend while being shown around the Boulder campus by CU skiers on a recruiting visit, word got back to Beattie. Source: Internet
"Cambridge University Musical Society", The Times, 13 June 1893, p. 10 Saint-Saëns greatly enjoyed the visit, and even spoke approvingly of the college chapel services: "The demands of English religion are not excessive. Source: Internet