e/Approbative

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has gloss	eng: In linguistics, approbatives are words or grammatical forms which denote a positive affect; that is, they express the appreciation or approval of the speaker. Sometimes a term may begin as a pejorative word and eventually be adopted in an approbative sense. In historical linguistics, this phenomenon is known as amelioration (e.g. "punk").
lexicalization	eng: approbative
instance of	c/Pejoratives