Accept
Accept verb - To agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly.
Love
Love verb - To hold dear.
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Calvin Johnson would like for his daughter Daisy to love and accept him despite his long absence from her life and his tendencies toward supervillainy.
Source: "Well Done, Dad!" Guy -
The First, who gains all of a person's knowledge and memories when they die, appeared to Faith as the Mayor, saying that all she wanted was for Buffy to accept and love her.
Source: Foe Yay / Live-Action TV -
Also played with in the case of Stella, in that while she wants to be special and an individual, she also wants her family to love and accept her, regardless of what she's into or does. Punctuated!
Source: Film / Lemonade Mouth
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Love and Accept. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/accept/love
Accept & Love. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/accept/love>.
Love or Accept. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/accept/love.
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