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- noun Plural form of
accepter .
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Examples
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Less bothersome to me than the articulate involuntaries were the somnambulistic accepters, although the spiritual component of their acceptance seemed to make perfect psychological sense.
Notes on Group 2008
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The accepters bring stuffed penguins up and one guy whistles "thank you in Penguin."
Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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Whenever he met any of the "jolly" ones of the saloon passengers it was "Come, old fellow, will you toss me for a bottle of fizz?" as he called his favorite wine, and he had no lack of accepters.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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It is for the organic world what that popular view is for the inorganic; and the accepters of the latter stand in a position from which to regard the former in the most favorable light.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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The bishops, through the basest and most criminal of motives, were habitual accepters of persons; they annointed themselves with the last essence extracted from their flocks, and there was in them nothing of holy, of pure, of wise, or even of decent.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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The bishops, through the basest and most criminal of motives, were habitual accepters of persons; they annointed themselves with the last essence extracted from their flocks, and there was in them nothing of holy, of pure, of wise, or even of decent.
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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Verses 10-14 carry us beyond the preceding parable, and show us the judgment on the unworthy accepters of the invitation.
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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[57] Even now, different accepters of the same doctrinal terms hold many shades of conception between a philosophical view which recommends itself as easiest to believe, and one felt to be so irrational, that it calls in the aid of terror.
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Whereupon Mr. Renwick found it his duty not only to declare against the granters, but also against the accepters of this toleration; warning also the people of the hazard of their succession to it, _etc.
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In the beginning of the year 1688, being now drawing near the period of his course, he ran very fast, and wrought very hard both as a christian and as a minister: And having for some time had a design to emit something in way of testimony against both the granters and accepters of the toleration, that might afterward stand on record.
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