acceptation
Example Sentences
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In the general acceptation of the term, that implies a criminal accusation by the government.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Eliot was truly religious, though perhaps not a Christian in the common acceptation.
From Miss Ellis's Mission by Mary P. Wells Smith
Yes, actually a drawing-room, in the most elegant acceptation of the word.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
The brothers had proved that they did not mind danger in the ordinary acceptation of the term, but, in their thinking, in this place they trespassed upon the precincts of the other world.
From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Charles Gilson
But, even as he said it, he knew that, in the ordinary acceptation of the term at least, Miss Macks was not alarming.
From The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson
