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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Acceptation \Ac`cep*ta"tion\, n.
1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard;
state of being acceptable. [Obs.]
This is saying worthy of all acceptation. --1 Tim.
i. 15.
Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great
dignity and acceptation with God. --Hooker.
2. The meaning in which a word or expression is understood,
or generally received; as term is to be used according to
its usual acceptation.
My words in common acceptation, Could never give
this provocation. --Gay.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
acceptation
n 1: acceptance as true or valid
2: the meaning of a word [syn: {word meaning}, {word sense}]
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