Meanings of ordinary acceptation in English

Bismarck was not an orator in the ordinary acceptation of the word.

We are not even friends, in the ordinary acceptation of the word.

Malebranche's philosophy revealed the incompatibility of Providence-inthe ordinary acceptation-withimmutable natural laws.

Of course, in the ordinary acceptation of the word, she was not miraculous.

And a beauty perhaps she is not-atleast, in the ordinary acceptation of the term.

We live in the plainest way, and cannot entertain in the ordinary acceptation of the term.

There is, however, no little want of reason in the ordinary acceptation of the term, 'loving forgiveness.'

Fritz shook his head, which, in the ordinary acceptation of the sign, means, I really do not know.

Much had been done to spoil him, but in the ordinary acceptation of the word he was not spoiled.

Janus possessed no temples in the ordinary acceptation of the word, but all the gates of cities were dedicated to him.

It has already been remarked, that questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term.

Of the resident ladies, I can only say that to hear of a fast one-inordinary acceptation of that term-was ,indeed ,rare

The familiar whir of the engine brought back to him the possibility of his being alive in the ordinary acceptation of the term.

Of jealousy, in the ordinary acceptation of the term; of its caprices, suspicions, subterfuges; and, above all, of its resentments,-Hettywas totally incapable.

In its ordinary acceptation, the word 'scruple' signifies a malicious and superstitious whim, which pronounces an action which may be innocent to be guilty.

They were not patriotic, at least in the ordinary acceptation of that word; they prophesied not good but evil for their people (Jer.