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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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It is the negation of contract and the acceptation of status.
It is also, in the present acceptation of the word, improper.
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.
It is a maxim worthy of all acceptation that a man may have that allowance he takes.
I am... necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.
The rules should be so framed that there should be little or no washing-up, in the ordinary acceptation of the term.

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