different between acceptance vs glory
acceptance
English
Etymology
- First attested in 1574. From Middle French acceptance, from Old French accepter (“accept”). Equivalent to accept +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?k.?s?p.t?ns/
Noun
acceptance (countable and uncountable, plural acceptances)
- (uncountable) The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
- 1611, King James Version, Isaiah 60:7
- They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.
- 1611, King James Version, Isaiah 60:7
- (countable) An instance of that act.
- Belief in something; agreement, assent.
- The state of being accepted.
- The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
- (business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.
- (law) An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.
- 1876, Mozley and Whiteley, Law Dictionary:
- What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty.
- 1876, Mozley and Whiteley, Law Dictionary:
- (government, US) The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
- (horse racing, Australia, New Zealand, plural only) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
- (optics) Synonym of etendue.
Usage notes
In modern law, offer and acceptance are necessary elements for a legally binding contract.
Alternative forms
- acceptaunce (obsolete)
Synonyms
- (act of accepting): accepting, receiving, reception, approval
- (state of being accepted): acceptableness
- (assent and engagement by person on whom bill of exchange is drawn): assent
Derived terms
- (assent and engagement by person on whom bill of exchange is drawn): banker's acceptance, trade acceptance
- preacceptance
Translations
References
- acceptance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Further reading
- acceptance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- acceptance (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- offer and acceptance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Scots
Noun
acceptance (uncountable)
- acceptance
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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glory
English
Etymology
From Middle English glory, glorie, from Old French glorie (“glory”), from Latin gl?ria (“glory, fame, renown, praise, ambition, boasting”). Doublet of gloria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l???i/
- (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /??lo(?)?i/
- Rhymes: -??ri
Noun
glory (countable and uncountable, plural glories)
- Great beauty and splendor.
- Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 1, p. 197,[1]
- In this faire wize they traueild long yfere,
- Through many hard assayes, which did betide;
- Of which he honour still away did beare,
- And spred his glorie through all countries wide.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 1, p. 197,[1]
- That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
- 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, “The First Eclogues,” [p. 92b],[2]
- Deeme it no gloire [sic] to swell in tyrannie.
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act II, Scene 2,[3]
- As jewels lose their glory if neglected,
- So princes their renowns if not respected.
- 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, “The First Eclogues,” [p. 92b],[2]
- Worship or praise.
- (meteorology, optics) An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.
- Synonym: anticorona
- Victory; success.
- An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 13,[5]
- Seen across the dim candle with his moistened eyes, she looked as if she had a glory shining round her head.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 13,[5]
- (theology) The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.
- (obsolete) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
- c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), The Crowne of all Homers Workes Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise, His Hymn’s and Epigrams, London: John Bill, “A Hymne to Venus,” p. 106,[6]
- […] But if thou declare
- The Secrets, truth; and art so mad to dare
- (In glory of thy fortunes) to approue,
- That rich-crownd Venus, mixt with thee in loue;
- Ioue (fir’d with my aspersion, so dispred)
- Will, with a wreakefull lightning, dart thee dead.
- c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), The Crowne of all Homers Workes Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise, His Hymn’s and Epigrams, London: John Bill, “A Hymne to Venus,” p. 106,[6]
Synonyms
- (emanation of light proceeding from specially holy beings): halo
- praise
- worship
- fame
- honor
- honour
Related terms
Translations
Verb
glory (third-person singular simple present glories, present participle glorying, simple past and past participle gloried)
- To exult with joy; to rejoice.
- 1753, James Hervey, "A Visitation Sermon: Preached at Northampton, May 10, 1753":
- In what the Apostle did glory?—He gloried in a Cross. ... [T]o the Ear of a Galatian, it conveyed much the same Meaning, as if the Apostle had gloried in a Halter; gloried in the Gallows; gloried in a Gibbet.
- 1891: Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- He says he glories in what happened, and that good may be done indirectly; but I wish he would not so wear himself out now he is getting old, and would leave such pigs to their wallowing.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 4 & 5:
- When the passion is extreme, suffering may actually be gloried in, provided it be for the ideal cause, death may lose its sting, the grave its victory.
- 1753, James Hervey, "A Visitation Sermon: Preached at Northampton, May 10, 1753":
- To boast; to be proud.
- 1881, Revised Version, 2 Corinthians 7:14:
- For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also, which I made before Titus, was found to be truth.
- 1881, Revised Version, 2 Corinthians 7:14:
- (archaic, poetic) To shine radiantly.
- 1859–85, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Last Tournament":
- Down in a casement sat,
- A low sea-sunset glorying round her hair
- And glossy-throated grace, Isolt the Queen.
- 1859–85, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Last Tournament":
Translations
Middle English
Noun
glory
- Alternative form of glorie
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