Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female acceptor.
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Examples
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Is not a half-hearted love, or a half-hearted acceptress of love, a contradiction in terms?
Hints for Lovers 1899
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Thou all-acceptress -- thou hospitable, (thou only art hospitable as
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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Thou all-acceptress -- thou hospitable (thou only art hospitable as
The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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