Acceptation vs Recognition - What's the difference?
acceptation | recognition |
(obsolete) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.
* 1676 , , The Second Book of Eccle?ia?tical Polity'', in ''The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Eccle?ia?tical Polity ,
* 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , i, 15,
The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received.
* 1731 January 30, , editor), ''The Craftsman , Volume VII,
Ready belief.
the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
an awareness that something observed has been observed before
acceptance as valid or true
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official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country
honour, favourable note, or attention
As nouns the difference between acceptation and recognition
is that acceptation is (obsolete) acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable while recognition is the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized.acceptation
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Noun
(en noun)page 122,
- Finally, ?ome things although not ?o required of nece??ity, that to leave them undone excludeth from Salvation, are notwith?tanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God, that mo?t ample reward in Heaven is laid up for them.
- This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation , that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
- The term is to be used according to its usual acceptation .
page 233,
- My words, in common Acceptation , / Could never give this Provocation ;
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*recognition
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Noun
(en-noun)- He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
- Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition ; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.
- The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.