Definition of "favourable reception" []

• Acceptance as satisfactory (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "THE Author of this little Work cannot, in the anxious moment of committing it to its fate, refuse herself the indulgence of expressing some portion of the gratitude with which she is filled, by the highly favourable reception given to her TWO former attempts in this species of composition; nor forbear pouring forth her thanks to the many Friends whose kind zeal has forwarded the present undertaking: from amongst whom she knows not how to resist selecting and gratifying herself by naming the Hon."