Acceptation meaning

ăk'sĕp-tā'shən
The usual or accepted meaning, as of a word or expression.

In one of its acceptations value is a technical term in music.

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Favorable reception; approval.
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The generally accepted meaning (of a word or expression)
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Acceptance.
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1769, Oxford Standard text, King James Bible: 1 Timothy, i, 15,

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

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The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received.

The term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.

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Ready belief.
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Origin of acceptation

accept +‎ -ation

Sentence Examples

  • By the decree of Canopus, Ptolemy III.Euergetes introduced through the assembly of priests an extra day every fourth year, but this reform had no acceptation until it was reimposed by Augustus with the Julian calendar.

  • He admits in the sacred writings as in the classics only one acceptation, and that the grammatical, convertible into and the same with the logical and historical.

  • This doctrine is now receiving widespread acceptation among anatomical naturalists; and in the American Naturalist for 1904, Dr W.

  • acceptation of the term.

  • In the widest acceptation, the system extends from the E.

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