Acceptant
willingly or readily or receiving; receptive.
Historical Examples
Where there is either no intrinsic value, or no acceptant capacity, there is no effectual value; that is to say, no wealth.
Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy John Ruskin
He awoke in the morning, acceptant of what he had done in the night.
Cleo The Magnificent Louis Zangwill
Where the intrinsic value and acceptant capacity come together there is Effectual value, or wealth.
Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy John Ruskin
adjective
receiving willingly; receptive
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