acceptable
adjective
capable or worthy of being accepted.
acceptableness
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a word derived from
acceptable.
Example Sentences
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His sunny smile spread their gracious acceptableness before her.
From Mr. Achilles by Jennette Lee
Her subjective immortality derived much of its acceptableness and beauty from those poetic phases given to it by idealistic pantheism.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke
But in those who have scarcely felt their sins as any incumbrance, it would be mere affectation to pretend to very exalted conceptions of the value and acceptableness of the proffered deliverance.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by William Wilberforce
One discordant note may prevent the harmonious symphony of united prayer, and so far hinder the acceptableness of such prayer with God.
From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan) Pierson
And for the true acceptableness of Christian service, that motive of thankful love must be actually present in each deed.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
