assent

²as·sent

noun \ə-ˈsent, a-\

Definition of ASSENT

: an act of agreeing to something especially after thoughtful consideration : an act of assenting : acquiescence, agreement

Examples of ASSENT

1. One day I arrived at class to discuss some abolition treaties written during the early Romantic period. An African American woman, Stephanie, was introduced to me by one of my students. Stephanie asked if she could sit in on the class, and I of course assented. —Laura Mandell, Profession, 1997
2. Christopher, on his end, is supposed to have assented to and even welcomed this public confirmation of his own negligibility, not that foreign diplomats needed any. —Tom Carson, Village Voice, 19 July 1994
3. Fearing that without a new batch of social measures the country would slip away from him, Roosevelt assented—sometimes rather grudgingly—to proposals that in sum make up the semi-welfare state under which we have lived this past half century. —Irving Howe, New York Times Book Review, 28 Sept.1986

Origin of ASSENT

(see ¹assent)

First Known Use: 14th century