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acceptant

American  
[ak-sep-tuhnt] / ækˈsɛp tənt /

adjective

  1. willingly or readily accepting or receiving; receptive.


acceptant British  
/ əkˈsɛptənt /

adjective

  1. receiving willingly; receptive

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of acceptant

First recorded in 1590–1600; accept + -ant

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I am acceptant of whenever it is you can join in on this crusade, this journey, this fight that I am in day after day after day.

From Slate Mar. 25, 2021

You don’t want to be acceptant of that.

From Fox News Dec. 11, 2018

At first acceptant of Sharon's news, he angers when he discovers who the father is.

From Time Magazine Archive

Different cultures do things differently than we do, and so we're marginally more acceptant of strange behavior in exotic climes than we are when, say, Owen Wilson or Vince Vaughan are acting sort of stupid.

From Time Magazine Archive

He awoke in the morning, acceptant of what he had done in the night.

From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Zangwill, Louis

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