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Definition of "acceptant" []

  • Accepting willingly. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "acceptant" in a sentence
  • "The Government remains the only Employer acceptant of Wage claims unwarranted by Production gains."
  • "Instead of having our governments do the killing for us, since most of the western population seems so acceptant of such actions, we could go and do the job ourselves."
  • "It suggests, as Trilling puts it, "a more strenuous moral experience" than does sincerity, as well as "a less acceptant and genial view of the social circumstances of life.""