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Concordances
Thompson Chain Reference
• To-Day, Accepted Time
• Accepted Time
• Accepted of God
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• UncircuMcIsed Accepted
Dictionaries
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Acceptance
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Acceptance
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Acceptance (2)
• Acceptance
King James Dictionary
• Accepting
• Accepted
• Acceptation
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Acceptance
• Acceptable Year of the Lord
• Accepted, Acceptable
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Acceptation
• Accept
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Accept, Accepted, Acceptable
• Accept
Webster Dictionary
• Acceptive
• Acception
• Accepting
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Acceptance
• Accepted Frewen
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Accept; Acceptable; Acceptation
• Acceptance
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Accept, Acceptable, Accepted
• Acceptance
• Acceptants
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Acceptance
• Acceptants
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Acceptance
Lexicons
• ܡܰܣܒ݂ܳܐ
• ܡܩܰܒ݁ܠܳܐ
• ܩܽܘܒ݁ܳܠܳܐ
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Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Acceptance
• ἀπόδεκτος
• ἀποδέχομαι
• ἀποδοχή
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• אָבָה
• בָּחורּ בָּחַר, , בָּחַר
• דָּשֵׁן
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ACCEPTA'TION, n.

1. Kind reception a receiving with favor or approbation.

This is a saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Timothy 1 .

2. A state of being acceptable favorable regard.

Some things are of great dignity and acceptation with God

But in this sense acceptableness is more generally used.

3. the meaning or sense in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received as a term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.

4. Reception in general. Obs.