acquiescement

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French acquiescement, equivalent to acquiesce +‎ -ment.

Noun

acquiescement (plural acquiescements)

1. (rare) Acquiescence (assent, submission).
   • 1851, William Starbuck Mayo, Romance Dust From the Historic Placer, New York, N.Y.: Geo. P. Putnam; London: Richard Bentley, page 276:

     Though this set a muttering all whose fists had not been greased; yet those who had been paid for backing this proposal, being men of too good a conscience not to earn their hire, stickled so powerfully for their necessitated sovereign, and represented in such colors the desirable happiness and advantage of being once more honored with the title of his loyal vassals, that the acquiescement became general.

References

• “acquiescement, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

French

Etymology

From acquiescer (“to acquiesce”) +‎ -ment (forms nouns from verbs) [from 1527].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kjɛs.mɑ̃/

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• Homophone: acquiescements
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Noun

acquiescement m (plural acquiescements)

1. agreement, acquiescence

   Synonym: (literary, dated) acquiescence

Further reading

• “acquiescement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.