accepter

[ak-sep-ter]

noun

1. a person or thing that accepts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of accepter¹

First recorded in 1575–85; accept + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Mr. Gourdet objected to Ms. Lovelace’s role, as he put it online last summer, “as judge, jury, executioner and apology accepter,” and to the fact that the accusers went unnamed, eliminating the possibility for making amends.

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In fact, I’m such a climate-science accepter that I don’t even bother having hope for the ice caps.

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I’m still kind of a reluctant accepter of accolades.”

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The first is that Sun Yat-sen, born a Chinese of the nineteenth century, had the intellectual orientation of a member of the world-society, and an accepter of the Confucian ideology.

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God is no accepter of persons.

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