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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. acceptance as true or valid;

2. the accepted meaning of a word;
[syn: word meaning, word sense, acceptation]

3. the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception;
- Example: "its adoption by society"
- Example: "the proposal found wide acceptance"
[syn: adoption, acceptance, acceptation, espousal]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Acceptation \Ac`cep*ta"tion\, n. 1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] This is saying worthy of all acceptation. --1 Tim. i. 15. [1913 Webster] Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation. --Gay. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

acceptation n 1: acceptance as true or valid 2: the accepted meaning of a word [syn: word meaning, word sense, acceptation] 3: the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance" [syn: adoption, acceptance, acceptation, espousal]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

34 Moby Thesaurus words for "acceptation": acceptance, acception, acquiescence, assurance, assuredness, belief, certainty, confidence, credence, credit, credulity, dependence, faith, hope, import, intendment, message, purport, received meaning, reception, reliance, reliance on, sense, significance, significancy, signification, stock, store, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, trust, understanding, usage