The specific meaning in which a word or expression is understood.
The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception.
1 Bismarck was not an orator in the ordinary acceptation of the word.
2 In Paris, there are no slaughter-houses, in our acceptation of the term.
3 We are not even friends, in the ordinary acceptation of the word.
4 Most assuredly he was not, in the common acceptation of the term.
5 Her eyes had no beauty, in the common acceptation of the term.
6 That man is a blackguard in the full acceptation of the word.
7 All of these were, in the strictest acceptation of the term, freemen.
8 But he is not speaking of bread taken in the first acceptation .
9 I dare assert, that in the common acceptation , this is pure flattery.
10 Man has properties; that is, in the first acceptation of the term, faculties.
11 He has property; that is, in its second acceptation , the right of domain.
12 Malebranche's philosophy revealed the incompatibility of Providence-inthe ordinary acceptation - with immutable natural laws.
13 Of course, in the ordinary acceptation of the word, she was not miraculous.
14 Ridgely was in no sense a fort, but by general acceptation .
15 He is, in the true acceptation of the term, a realist.
16 Novelty, in its rigid acceptation , will not be found in any judicious production.
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