Acceptance Definition

ăk-sĕptəns
noun
The act or process of accepting.
American Heritage
An accepting or being accepted.
Webster's New World
The state of being accepted or acceptable.
American Heritage
Approving reception; approval; acceptability.
Webster's New World
Favorable reception; approval.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Acceptance

Noun

Singular:
acceptance
Plural:
acceptances

Origin of Acceptance

  • First attested in 1574. From Middle French acceptance, from Old French accepter (“accept”). Equivalent to accept +‎ -ance.

    From Wiktionary

Acceptance Sentence Examples

  • Apparently her calm acceptance encouraged him to continue.

  • Voluntary acceptance of shared practices is not a surrender of autonomy.

  • Without pledging ourselves to the acceptance of all its details - some of which, as is only natural, cannot be sustained with our present knowledge - it is certainly not too much to say that Merrem's merits are almost incomparably superior to those of any of his predecessors.

  • This theory has advanced from the position of a disparaged heresy to acceptance by leading thinkers.

  • In particular, his acceptance of the crown would have guaranteed his followers, under the act of Henry VII., from liability in the future to the charge of high treason for having given allegiance to himself as a de facto king.

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Words Starting With

AACACC

Words Ending With

ECENCE

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