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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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Origin of acceptant

First recorded in 1590–1600; accept + -ant

Example Sentences

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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

By this time John Travolta knows all this in his bones, and it shows in his acting as a kind of acceptant curiosity about the world's nuttiness, which includes, of course, his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where there is either no intrinsic value, or no acceptant capacity, there is no effectual value; that is to say, no wealth.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

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