[f. ACCEPT v. + -ING1.] The action of taking or receiving what is offered or presented; acceptance, reception. Accepting of faces or persons of men: partiality, undue favor; see ACCEPT 2, ACCEPTION 2.
1577. trans. Bullinger, Decades (1592), 193. One of these two vices, which so infecteth the mindes of Judges … is the accepting of faces, or respect of persons.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Fam. Ep., Wks. 1711, 156. Your chearful accepting of such like essays heretofore.
Mod. John’s accepting of the appointment.
