acceptation

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Yes, actually a drawing-room, in the most elegant acceptation of the word.

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He transcended the narrow local limits of the older logographers, and was not content to repeat the traditions that had gained general acceptation through the poets.

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The other instance I am adducing gives us "cabal" in its common acceptation:— "Set up committees of cabals To pack designs without the walls."

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Such, however, in its most usual acceptation, Madame Swetchine never was: she never mingled in the light brilliant world; but she did form the centre of attraction to a large circle she had her salon.

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The Prince de Gallitzin has notified the acceptation of Russia nearly in the same words.

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