acception

Borrowed from Latin acceptiō, acceptiōnis (“acceptance”); synchronically analyzable as accept +‎ -ion. Cognate with French acception.

acception (plural acceptions)

1. (obsolete) acceptation; the received meaning.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Fuller, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Here the word "baron" is not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it.

• acception of persons
• acception of faces

• accept

• acception in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Borrowed from Latin acceptiō, acceptiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ak.sɛp.sjɔ̃/

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acception f (plural acceptions)

1. meaning, sense (of a word), acceptation

   Synonyms: sens, signification

• sans acception de

• accepter

• “acception” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).