acceptant
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonacceptant adjective
- unacceptant adjective
Etymology
Origin of acceptant
Example Sentences
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I am acceptant of whenever it is you can join in on this crusade, this journey, this fight that I am in day after day after day.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2021
You don’t want to be acceptant of that.
From Fox News • Dec. 11, 2018
Different cultures do things differently than we do, and so we're marginally more acceptant of strange behavior in exotic climes than we are when, say, Owen Wilson or Vince Vaughan are acting sort of stupid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meantime, we have this movie--full of acceptant, sidelong glances at human quirkiness--to delight us.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eagerly docile on the contrary—joyfully reverent—instantly and gratefully acceptant of whatever better insight or oversight a stranger could bring them, of the things of God or man.
From The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford by Ruskin, John
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