What is "acceptations"

Usage examples of "acceptations".

Sometimes the cry for simplicity is the reverse of what it seems, and is uttered by those who had rather hear words used in their habitual vague acceptations than submit to the cutting directness of a good writer.

In our survey of the various popular acceptations of justice, the term appeared generally to involve the idea of a personal right--a claim on the part of one or more individuals, like that which the law gives when it confers a proprietary or other legal right.

When a man has nothing but rags on his body and vices in his heart, when he has reached that double degradation, material as well as moral, which characterises, in its two acceptations, the word beggarly, he is at an edge for crime.

In our survey of the various popular acceptations of justice, the term appeared generally to involve the idea of a personal right a claim on the part of one or more individuals, like that which the law gives when it confers a proprietary or other legal right.

My ideas are new, and therefore I have been obliged to find new words, or to give new acceptations to old terms, in order to convey my meaning.