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re-acceptance (plural re-acceptances)

  1. Archaic spelling of reacceptance.
    • 1914, Thomas Hardy, “The Recalcitrants”, in Satires of Circumstance, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 185:
      We have found us already shunned, disdained, / And for re-acceptance have not once striven; / Whatever offence our course has given / The brunt thereof we have long sustained.