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favorable reception

n. acceptance as satisfactory; "he bought it on approval" [syn: approval, favourable reception]

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Secure of a favorable reception, he repeats his visit the ensuing day, and is mortified by the discovery, that his person, his name, and his country, are already forgotten.

Remembering the object he had in view, in placing me under the management of Covey, and further, his cruel treatment of my poor crippled cousin, Henny, and his meanness in the matter of feeding and clothing his slaves, there was little ground to hope for a favorable reception at the hands of Capt.

When he found his friend met with a favorable reception, he bestowed on him the command of twenty men, like himself, active, skillful and resolute.

These proposals Clodius made to him, and for some days at the first appeared to have met with a favorable reception, but afterward was not admitted to an audience.

May, together with his other papers, and above all, his modest earnestness of manner, won him a favorable reception.

May, togetherwith his other papers, and above all, his modest earnestness ofmanner, won him a favorable reception.

The favorable reception of the proposition to Great Britain was the less to be doubted, as her orders of council had not only been referred for their vindication to an acquiescence on the part of the United States no longer to be pretended, but as the arrangement proposed, while it resisted the illegal decrees of France, involved, moreover, substantially, the precise advantages professedly aimed at by the British orders.

My influence would insure you a favorable reception from those who make the reputations of men like you.

He had to have learned something important to get a favorable reception from Atvar.