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Acceptant

Acceptant \Ac*cept"ant\, a. Accepting; receiving.

Acceptant

Acceptant \Ac*cept"ant\, n. An accepter.
--Chapman.

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acceptant

a. accepting; receiving. n. One who accepts something.

WordNet
acceptant

adj. accepting willingly; "acceptive of every new idea"; "an acceptant type of mind" [syn: acceptive]

Usage examples of "acceptant".

Kalinin gave his shrug, by now characteristic of him in Darsoss' mind, so acceptant in appearance but so concealing of a mind ready with an alternate means to any desired objective.

Suddenly Anne was there with him, speaking to him in French as she often had, acceptant and good-spirited about her own death.

Only, we are so far gone into falseness, so acceptant of our limited role, that we never question it at all.

He may do with his property what he pleases, he may relinquish his rights, renounce his advantages, as he judges proper: the acceptant is not obliged to inform himself of his motives, nor to weigh their just value.

He tried to freshen up his sympathies on them, to get at what they were really thinking and feeling, and it was some time before he could understand that they were not really thinking and feeling anything of their own concerning their art, but were necessarily, in their quality of young, inexperienced men, mere acceptants of older men's thoughts and feelings, whether they were tremendously conservative, as some were, or tremendously progressive, as others were.