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Acceptance

noun

The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true. Synonym: credence. "Acceptance of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for 200 years"

The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception. Synonyms: acceptation, adoption, espousal. "The proposal found wide acceptance"

The state of being acceptable and accepted. Antonym: rejection.

(contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract).

Banking: a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank. Synonym: banker's acceptance.

A disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations. Synonyms: sufferance, toleration.

The act of taking something that is offered. "He anticipated their acceptance of his offer"

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"Acceptance" Quotes from Famous Books

... and Mothers' Meetings should be promoted separately by the Sunday school. Not one merely but a series, so that every father and mother may be able to attend. It would be well to promote these in small groups by invitation and acceptance until every father and mother was reached. A regular course of education might ...

— The Boy and the Sunday School - A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday - School with Teen Age Boys • John L. Alexander

... and began trotting the child to a slow measure. There were still a few questions which she wished to ask, but the other's simple acceptance of all she said inspired her with cool deliberation. There was plenty of time, and she wished to make no mistake. She must be sure of her own safety, and after that she must do anything she could for the comfort of the other woman. It would ...

— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various

... Arias, with affected levity, "she will never forget me. Besides I have nothing worthy of her acceptance—give her my best wishes, and beseech her to pardon me as freely ...

— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio

... my Agency," I replied, "forbids the acceptance of rewards; hence, I wish it understood in advance, that my only charges will be according to my regular schedule of prices, and that I expect nothing more. This is my invariable custom, whether the case be one of murder, arson, burglary, or simple theft; the number ...

— The Somnambulist and the Detective - The Murderer and the Fortune Teller • Allan Pinkerton

... back to Gunsight where he had seen his greatest triumphs and his days of blackest defeat and waited for Stoddard to strike. It was all over now—all over but the details and the final acceptance of terms—and, while he waited, he packed up to go. No one knew better than Rimrock himself that it was right and fitting to move on. Old hatreds and animosities, old heart-burnings and recriminations, would make Gunsight ...

— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge

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