approbative vs sympathetic

approbative

adj
  • Expressing approval. 

  • Sanctioning officially, giving authorization or approval to something. 

noun
  • A word or grammatical form which denotes a positive affect expressing the appreciation or approval of the speaker. 

sympathetic

adj
  • Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action. 

  • A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence. 

  • Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way. 

  • Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration. 

  • Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves. 

  • Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association. 

  • Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy. 

  • Attracting the liking of others. 

How often have the words approbative and sympathetic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )