acceptation

How To Use acceptation In A Sentence

• If a traveler comes here from Ethiopia, from Australia, or from Great Britain,… he has a right to the protection of the laws, but he is not a citizen in the ordinary acceptation of the word.
• Well, in this case I feel comfortable speaking on behalf of the secretary and will make an acceptation. In Memorium: Peter Graves
• The word ‘malice’ in that definition does not mean the word ‘malice’ in the common acceptation or parlance implies.
• Jesus Christ, whereby, being changed into his likeness, we are kept entirely in peace with God, and are preserved unblamable, or in a state of gracious acceptation with him, according to the terms of the covenant, unto the end. Pneumatologia
• Hence the word cometh to have its second acceptation, even that which is rendered by the apostle hilastērion, “placamen,” or “placamentum,” — that whereby God is appeased. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
• He would now be quite interested in the various usages of the term, its numerous acceptations and definitions, and the way it has infiltrated the discourse in and on the arts.
• In its widest acceptation, concupiscence is any yearning of the soul for good; in its strict and specific acceptation, a desire of the lower appetite contrary to reason. The Purity of Mary
• When a man has no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his distress and his malice; so slang does not say Les Miserables
• “Nakat,” with the double meaning of to spot and to handsel especially dancing and singing women; and, as Mr. Payne notes in this acceptation it is practically equivalent to the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• _freeman_; and if a freeman in the common acceptation of the term, then Diary in America, Series One