acceptation
Americannoun
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the usual or accepted meaning of a word, phrase, etc.
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favorable regard; approval.
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belief; acceptance as true or valid.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of acceptation
1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French. See accept, -ation
Example Sentences
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In the general acceptation of the term, that implies a criminal accusation by the government.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Eliot was truly religious, though perhaps not a Christian in the common acceptation.
From Miss Ellis's Mission by Mary P. Wells Smith
"The first degree of submission produces respectful acquiescence to God's will; then this sentiment becomes transformed into a pious and sincere acceptation full of confidence; until confidence itself gradually acquires a filial character."
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
This is to say, we were, and we gloried in being, absolutely free thinkers, a term which, in its true acceptation, we regarded as man's noblest title.
From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland
The brothers had proved that they did not mind danger in the ordinary acceptation of the term, but, in their thinking, in this place they trespassed upon the precincts of the other world.
From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Charles Gilson
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