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What does acceptation mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.
  2. The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received.
  3. Ready belief.
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Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed And worthy of acceptation.
The powers that are conferred on the trustee, or manager, do not convert the unit trusts into discretionary trusts in the normal acceptation of that term.
And in this sense and acceptation of the words, the natural frame and contexture doth well and pregnantly administer unto us.
The rules should be so framed that there should be little or no washing-up, in the ordinary acceptation of the term.
It is also, in the present acceptation of the word, improper.
The logistical agent has to evaluate savings achieved and the acceptation shown by clients.

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