assent
See also: -assent
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb).
VerbEdit
assent (third-person singular simple present assents, present participle assenting, simple past and past participle assented)
- (intransitive) To agree; to give approval.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- The princess assented to all that was suggested.
- 2012, Spectral Mortuary, Lapidated
- To assent to the words
Of medieval law
To pay a corporal price
To death, by lapidation
- To assent to the words
- (intransitive) To admit a thing as true.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 24:9:
- And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
SynonymsEdit
- (give approval): consent; See also Thesaurus:assent
- (admit a thing as true): affirm, allow, astipulate, aver, soothe, stipulate
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to agree, give approval
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NounEdit
assent (countable and uncountable, plural assents)
- agreement; act of agreeing
- I will give this act my assent.
- 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 128:
- He lowered his head in assent.
SynonymsEdit
- approval, consent, sanction; See also Thesaurus:approval
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
agreement, act of agreeing
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LatinEdit
VerbEdit
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