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approved

/əˈpɹuːvd/ adjective B1
  1. Having received approval. · Employees' approved expense claims will be reimbursed by the 4th of the following month.
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“Yes,” said Maximilian, “I recollect the project, of which I highly approved.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 925 · C1
Thinking that I might wish to settle in France, he left me at his departure, together with the papers establishing my identity, a letter promising, if he approved of my choice, 150,000 livres per annum from the day I was married.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 824 · C1
Cavalcanti, as the count’s father, who highly approved of the union, regretted his inability to leave Parma at that time, and promised a wedding gift of a hundred and fifty thousand livres.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 845 · C1
She had even condescended to advise him to marry as soon as he could, provided he chose with discretion; and had once paid him a visit in his humble parsonage, where she had perfectly approved all the alterations he had been making, and had even vouchsafed to suggest some herself,--some shelves in the closets upstairs.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 73 · B2

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