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
In a third acceptation of the words they might signify, that a particular tenement was charged to represent the village in regard to the suits, and for this reason privileged in other respects.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
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 Gilson, Charles
Some things… are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Both would be sharp and possess abundance of detail, still one would be soft and the other hard in an artistic acceptation of the word hardness.
