ACCEPTA'TION, noun 1. Kind reception; a receiving with favor or approbation. This is a saying worthy of all acceptation 1 Timothy 1:15. 2. A state of being acceptable; favorable regard. Some things are of great dignity and acceptation with God But in this sense acceptableness is more generally used. 3. the meaning or sense in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as a term is to be used according to its usual acceptation 4. Reception in general. obsolete
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