acceptation
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In the general acceptation of the term, that implies a criminal accusation by the government.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
This is to say, we were, and we gloried in being, absolutely free thinkers, a term which, in its true acceptation, we regarded as man's noblest title.
From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland
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.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
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
