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2 definitions found 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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