ACCEPTATION • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Acceptation

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Acceptation n.

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. (Obs.) "This is saying worthy of all acceptation." "Some things... are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God."

The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. "My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation."

See images of 'Acceptation'

Etymology of 'Acceptation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Acceptation" Quotes from Famous Books

... on religion. Like many other great men, he was not what might technically be called a Christian. He was a religious man in spirit and by nature; yet he never joined a church. Mrs. Lincoln says that he had no religious faith, in the usual acceptation of the word, but that religion was a sort of poetry in his nature. "Twice during his life," she said, "he seemed especially to think about it. Once was when our boy Willie died. Once—and this time he thought of it more ...

— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

... legitimate field for the poetic exercise, lies in the creation of novel moods of purely physical loveliness. Thus it happened he became neither musician nor poet—if we use this latter term in its every-day acceptation. Or it might have been that he neglected to become either, merely in pursuance of his idea that in contempt of ambition is to be found one of the essential principles of happiness on earth. Is it not indeed, possible ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... celebrated the Adventurous Archer in a way that was distinctly old-fashioned. He made the archer a superman, pushing his way forward by force, and by the dominance of personality. And see how comparatively insignificant he made the supporting figures. The relation of those three people implies an acceptation of the old ideals of the social organization. MacNeil had a chance here to express the new spirit of today, the spirit that honors the common man and that makes an ideal of social co-operation on ...

— The City of Domes • John D. Barry

... good dish elsewhere. Kafirs can be taught to do one or two things pretty well, but even then they could not be trusted to do them for a party. In fact, if I stated that there were no good servants—in the ordinary acceptation of the word—here at all, I should not be guilty of exaggeration. If there are, all I can say is, I have neither heard of nor seen them. On the contrary, I have been overwhelmed by lamentations on that ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various

... said he. "Understand me as using the word for want of a more appropriate one—not in its ordinary and contemptuous acceptation." ...

— Colloquies on Society • Robert Southey

More quotes...