acceptancy
Synonym of acceptance.
Noun
- Synonym of acceptance.
- That the plaintiff, afterwards wiſhing to remove the goods from the defendant’s wharf, tendered the defendants upwards of two thouſand pounds for wharfage and other expences, and that they refuſed to give up the goods...
- I feel, therefore, correspondently affected, and welcome Death with a calm acceptancy; […] - 1800, Dio Chrysostom, translated by Gilbert Wakefield, “Charidemus”, in Select Essays of Dio Chrysostom, […], London: […]...
- Here's a proof of gift, / But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy, / But rather, disproof. - 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Second Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page...
Synonyms: acceptance
Origin
An alteration of acceptance after words in -ancy. By surface analysis, accept + -ancy.