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Definition of Acceptingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acceptingly
Literary usage of Acceptingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1870)
"So Locke (there is no mistake, it is veritably Locke of the Human Understanding), [May
14,1870.] speaks acceptingly of ..."
2. The Christian Examiner (1838)
"It is to ask the child some general questions, such as " Who made him," and to
receive quietly and acceptingly the answer whatever it may be ; — never to ..."
3. The Boston Review (1863)
"God can now be just and the justifier of every one that acceptingly and penitently
believeth in the gracious and glorious provision. ..."
4. One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick (1913)
"Milly slowly shakes her head, acceptingly. “God, bow I have longed for you !“
“Silly man !“ But she is pleased. She is thinking, — “I'm doing it for ..."
5. Homilies on the Gospel According to St. John: And His First Epistle by Augustine (1848)
"But if thou not yet understandest Him to be God, thou hast not yet received His
testimony : receive, and thou puttest thy seal to it, thou acceptingly* ..."
6. The Congregational Review (1863)
"God can now be just and the justifier of every one that acceptingly and penitently
believeth in the gracious and glorious provision. ..."
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