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Vinony

approvingly

adverb

  1. so as to imply approval (in an approving manner)
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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English approving Middle English -ly English -ly English approvingly 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.”