Sentence example with the word 'acceptation'

acceptation

acceptance, assurance, certainty, credit, faith, intendment, received meaning, reliance on, significancy, store, suspension of disbelief, usage

Definition n. acceptance as true or valid

Last update: September 19, 2015


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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.   [Please select]

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Man has properties; that is, in the first acceptation of the term, faculties.   [Please select]

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He has property; that is, in its second acceptation, the right of domain.   [Please select]

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Dick Kennedy was a Scotchman, in the full acceptation of the word--open, resolute, and headstrong.   [Please select]

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Well, this is our acceptation of the term Prodigality.   [Please select]

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In the common acceptation of this term crepe of No.   [Please select]

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But few appellatives, in their received acceptation, would be found to correspond with their derivative meaning.   [Please select]

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Hence her forced acceptation of his standard of her position and her duties.   [Please select]

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It is enough to say, without applying this poetical rhapsody to Aouda, that she was a charming woman, in all the European acceptation of the phrase.   [Please select]

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Her education, in the common acceptation of the term, had necessarily been both desultory and imperfect; and yet, under its influence, the mind and character of Edith had strengthened and matured in no common degree.   [Please select]

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