Meanings of usual acceptation in English

This, says he, is not used by the Arabian Bedouins in the usual acceptation of the word.

That she was a good girl, in the usual acceptation of the word good, Lady Lufton had never doubted.

It was equally true that he was not stagestruck-not ,atany rate, in the usual acceptation of that expression.

I cannot say that I loved her in the usual acceptation of the term,-adorationwould better express what I felt.

It was a great philippic-taking that term in its usual acceptation-asexpressing a vehement torrent of bitter epigram and denunciatory climax.

He was the father of a family, and, in the usual acceptation of the term, a very good sort of a man.

Thus there were two questions which concerned me very nearly: he wished to abolish matrimony, in the usual acceptation of the word, altogether.

Humanity, in its usual acceptation, means the inferiority of man to the divine or angelic nature, but superiority to the mere animal or brute creation.