I used that ambiguous acceptation of the term myself, until someone corrected me thus.
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Inma, I agree with you on how bad the social acceptation of illegal downloads is in Spain.
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What is the acceptation abaft all amore chaplet jewelry?
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They should also be taught how science works, with peer-review and the gradual acceptation of some theories as fact.
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Amputations moreover mean a loss in mobility, a great psychological trauma for the patient who, besides, may fear that the amputation reduces acceptation by others.
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But it is fair to remark, even as to Synesius, that he made it an express condition of his acceptation, on his election to the episcopate, that he might continue to live the married life.
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He transcended the narrow local limits of the older logographers, and was not content to merely repeat the traditions that had gained general acceptation through the poets.
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This project had a very good acceptation in the city and it's surroundings, and it's now helped and improved by the local Town Hall as a brand of Comodoro Rivadavia.
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Acceptance as true or valid
Word meaning: the accepted meaning of a word
Adoption: the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance"
Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable; The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation
An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law