acceptation

Besides having parties,—one essential of a covenant in its proper acceptation, this relation with God has conditions.

The words, taken in a new acceptation, reveal the charming maladroitness of a northern barbarian kneeling before a Roman beauty.

An examination of Elizabethan writings does not conduce to the idea of the term having had a widespread acceptation.

In its most proper acceptation, theory means the completed result of philosophical induction from experience.