acceptation

[ ak-sep-tey-shuh n ]

/ ˌæk sɛpˈteɪ ʃən /

the usual or accepted meaning of a word, phrase, etc.

favorable regard; approval.

belief; acceptance as true or valid.

Origin of acceptation

1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French. See accept, -ation

non·ac·cep·ta·tion, noun

Some question might also be made, whether the word "lately" was not intended to limit this acceptation of English law.

Constitutional History of England, volume 3 of 3 |Henry Hallam
Thus it happened that he became neither musician nor poet; if we use this latter term in its every—day acceptation.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe |Edgar Allan Poe
In quite a short time he became a polished gentleman, in the sixteenth-century acceptation of that term.

Rubens |Samuel Levy Bensusan
Yet it is not unlikely that Nebuchadnezzar used the phrase in this acceptation in ii.

The Three Additions to Daniel, A Study |William Heaford Daubney

To us the performance was an execution in the Tyburn acceptation of the word.

Garcia the Centenarian And His Times |M. Sterling Mackinlay

acceptation

/ (ˌæksɛpˈteɪʃən) /

the accepted meaning, as of a word, phrase, etc