Adjective : an acceptable performance. ,acceptable levels of radiation. From Dictionary.com.
Years will go by performing these “treatments,” thereby desensitizing us all to their acceptableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashley Treatment: A Feminist and Disability Rights Issue?] Reference
Can any one possessed of the requisite information give him hope of the acceptableness of such a publication?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850] Reference
In endeavouring to convey to the unelect an impression of their variety and acceptableness, am I not but discharging a debt of gratitude?. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
His sunny smile spread their gracious acceptableness before her. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Achilles] Reference
Had others greater charms of manner, and acceptableness of person?. From Wordnik.com. [Strength in Sorrow] Reference
With them it is not the doctrine, but its pecuniary acceptableness. From Wordnik.com. [And The Truth Shall Make You Free: A Speech On The Principles Of Social Freedom] Reference
Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Conduct of Life (1860)] Reference
The sins they are charged with, which spoiled the acceptableness of their fasts, ver. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
That name gives to what they do an authority on earth, and an acceptableness in heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Oil and frankincense signifying grace and acceptableness were not permitted to be used in her case. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Bible] Reference
And then the apostle adds the commendation or the acceptableness of this witness: Because the Spirit is truth, v. 6. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
Character, then, or, more truly, faith, which is the foundation of a righteous character, determines the acceptableness of worship. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference
Her subjective immortality derived much of its acceptableness and beauty from those poetic phases given to it by idealistic pantheism. From Wordnik.com. [George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy] Reference
No place now, under the gospel, can be imagined to add any acceptableness to the prayers made in or towards it, as the temple then did. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference
He valued the cure, not by the easiness of it to the prophet, but the acceptableness of it to himself, and would gladly pay for it accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference
There is no man, &c. -- graciously acknowledging at once the completeness and the acceptableness of the surrender as a thing already made. house, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
In that time a distinct advance was made in the acceptableness of the communion service, and probably in the number of those willing to join in its observance. From Wordnik.com. [Unitarianism in America] Reference
We would rather perceive the acceptableness of the word by the conversion, than by the crowds, of its hearers; though that also is a good sight and a good sign. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Thus they set up a separation wall between him and them, which stopped the current of his favours to them and spoiled the acceptableness of their services to him. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
He valued himself too much, as the Pharisees did, upon the plausibleness of his profession before men, and was proud of that, which spoiled the acceptableness of it. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
The Father gave him, but he gave himself too; and, in the freeness and voluntariness, as well as the greatness of the offering, lay the acceptableness and merit of it. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
But in those who have scarcely felt their sins as any incumbrance, it would be mere affectation to pretend to very exalted conceptions of the value and acceptableness of the proffered deliverance. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.] Reference
Messiahship, of his union or oneness with the Father, of the Father's love for him, and of the acceptableness of the Son's work and obedience, were as clear and undeniable in the first as in the last. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk] Reference
Further, does not this lovely symbol of my text suggest to us a glorious thought, the acceptableness even of our poor prayers, if they come from hearts inflamed with love because of Christ's great redeeming love?. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference
Rel.ii. c. 9) and have no difficulty even in supposing the acceptableness of these works, and the salvability of those who do them. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture.] Reference
21); for it is he that sanctifies all our gifts, and puts an acceptableness in them, 1 Pet. ii. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
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