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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.

(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

... The acceptance of tradition (and to accept it was suitable to the Squire's temperament) is occasionally marred by the impingement of tradition on private life and comfort. It was legendary in his class that young men's ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... chiefly for the up-and-down character of the country even for Japan; which was excelled only by the unhesitating acceptance of it on the part of the road, and this in its turn only by the crowds that traveled it. It seemed that the desire to go increased inversely as the difficulty in going. The wayfarers were most sociable folk, and for a people with whom personality ...

— Noto, An Unexplored Corner of Japan • Percival Lowell

... US since 1866, it has been slow in displacing the American adaptation of the British Imperial System known as the US Customary System. The US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system in its commercial and standards activities, but there is increasing acceptance in science, medicine, government, and many sectors ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Heights' and 'Agnes Grey' were accepted on terms somewhat impoverishing to the two authors; Currer Bell's book found acceptance nowhere, nor any acknowledgment of merit, so that something like the chill of despair began to invade her heart. As a forlorn hope, she tried one publishing house more—Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co. Ere long, ...

— Charlotte Bronte's Notes on the pseudonyms used • Charlotte Bronte

... had been! To take her for Mrs. Palmer's niece—that peerless creature with the calm acceptance of any situation, which marked the woman of the world, with the fine appreciation and quickness of repartee that spoke of generations of culture—to imagine that she could be Mollie Booth! He had been blind, besottedly blind. And now ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

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