We have no meanings for "usual acceptation" in our records yet.
1 This, says he, is not used by the Arabian Bedouins in the usual acceptation of the word.
2 That she was a good girl, in the usual acceptation of the word good, Lady Lufton had never doubted.
3 It was equally true that he was not stagestruck-not ,atany rate, in the usual acceptation of that expression.
4 I cannot say that I loved her in the usual acceptation of the term,-adorationwould better express what I felt.
5 It was a great philippic-taking that term in its usual acceptation - as expressing a vehement torrent of bitter epigram and denunciatory climax.
6 He was the father of a family, and, in the usual acceptation of the term, a very good sort of a man.
7 Thus there were two questions which concerned me very nearly: he wished to abolish matrimony, in the usual acceptation of the word, altogether.
8 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.
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