Acceptation

Ac·cep·ta·tion

Acceptation

n.
  1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [Obs.]
    This is saying worthy of all acceptation.
    — 1 Tim. i. 15.
    Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God.
  2. The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.
    My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation.