Definition of ASSENTING

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Synonyms: Verb

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Verb

assent, consent, accede, acquiesce, agree, subscribe mean to concur with what has been proposed. assent implies an act involving the understanding or judgment and applies to propositions or opinions. voters assented to the proposal consent involves the will or feelings and indicates compliance with what is requested or desired. consented to their daughter's going accede implies a yielding, often under pressure, of assent or consent. officials acceded to the prisoners' demands acquiesce implies tacit acceptance or forbearance of opposition. acquiesced to his boss's wishes agree sometimes implies previous difference of opinion or attempts at persuasion. finally agreed to come along subscribe implies not only consent or assent but hearty approval and active support. subscribes wholeheartedly to the idea

Examples of assent in a Sentence

Verb 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 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 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 The general proposed a detailed plan and the President assented. are we to conclude from your silence that you assent? Noun Cornel West of Harvard introduced Bradley as "my brother, my comrade." Then Bradley, donning drugstore reading glasses, standing motionless at the podium, took the air out of the cavernous hall with a lecture on the history of racism and the complexity of ethnic subcultures. He got nods of knowing assent, but he could have had a standing O. — Howard Fineman, Newsweek, 19 July 1999 Appointments at top universities often required the recommendation and assent of experts from other fields; insofar as deans, provosts, and other administrators came from economics and the hard sciences, many of them recognized rational choice as something close to their own ideals of legitimate scientific research. — Jonathan Cohn, New Republic, 25 Oct. 1999 From The Second Sex to In a Different Voice, I could read and appreciate the analysis or the argument without feeling personally very involved. I could, and did, argue for feminism because I believed in much of what feminist writers were saying about gender equality, but my assent came from my head, not my heart. I knew that as an audience for feminist writers I was a pretty tertiary concern. — Robert J. Connors, College English, February 1996 Once filming began, sequences that had been axed for budgetary reasons were put back—with the studio's tacit assent. — Charles Fleming, Vanity Fair, August 1995

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Germany and other northern European deficit hawks also assented to the temporary lifting of limits on spending in the European Union. — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, "Europe’s Leaders Ditch Austerity and Fight Pandemic With Cash," 26 Mar. 2020 Women in former eras were downtrodden and frequently assented to it. — The Economist, "Love in the time of the Black Death," 29 Aug. 2019 The government has also resorted to constitutional chicanery, exploiting the fact that Kashmir’s state legislature—which would normally have to assent to such changes—was dissolved over a year ago. — The Economist, "Modi’s revocation of Kashmir’s autonomy," 9 Aug. 2019 Bolton had also strongly resisted a proposal from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to which Trump had initially assented, to invite Iran’s foreign minister to Washington last month, the officials said. — Washington Post, "The DIY foreign policy president: Bolton ouster confirms it," 12 Sep. 2019 The authorities assented, and Epstein apparently killed himself, a punctuation mark on the futility and incompetence of a government that had ample opportunity to bring him to justice and failed every single time. — Rich Lowry, National Review, "Mistakes Were Made — Always in Jeffrey Epstein’s Favor," 13 Aug. 2019 By the time the country reluctantly assented to some foreign assistance, the disaster had started to slip from the news. — Kelsey Piper, Vox, "Why disaster relief is so hard," 25 Mar. 2019 By the time the country reluctantly assented to some foreign assistance, the disaster had started to slip from the news. — Kelsey Piper, Vox, "Why disaster relief is so hard," 25 Mar. 2019 By the time the country reluctantly assented to some foreign assistance, the disaster had started to slip from the news. — Kelsey Piper, Vox, "Why disaster relief is so hard," 25 Mar. 2019 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Employees in the country will be entitled to three days' leave after a miscarriage under the law, which is set to gain royal assent after passing its final stage in parliament. — Rob Picheta, CNN, "New Zealand approves paid leave after miscarriage, and encourages the world to follow," 25 Mar. 2021 All of this assumes that Texas peacefully leaves the Union with Congress’s assent. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, "We Regret To Inform You That Republicans are Talking About Secession Again," 22 Jan. 2021 Then the legislation was whisked off to the House of Lords, where it was expected to be approved before the queen gives her assent late Wednesday or in early Thursday. — Washington Post, "Brexit poised to become reality — after Britain’s final, mad dash to the finish line," 30 Dec. 2020 But one of his top deputies dismissed the effort from House conservatives to challenge the votes in a joint session Jan. 6, which would require the assent from at least one senator to proceed. — Anchorage Daily News, "GOP cleaves over effort to reverse Trump’s loss to Biden," 23 Dec. 2020 The deal will become British law once is passes through the unelected House of Lords later in the day and gets formal royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II. — Fox News, "British lawmakers approve post-Brexit trade deal with EU," 31 Dec. 2020 The panel’s assent sets the stage for an emergency use authorization for Moderna’s vaccine, which could arrive as soon as Friday. — Stat Staff, STAT, "FDA advisory panel endorses Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, clearing way for authorization," 17 Dec. 2020 Rather, politicians whose assent is considered critical are an important audience. — The Economist, "Schumpeter Unshackling France SA," 12 Dec. 2020 And that was the case until 2003 when Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected prime minister and began his assent as Turkey’s undisputed strongman and eventually its president. — Marty Judge Community Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Commentary: Why Joe Biden’s first trip abroad as president should be to Turkey," 10 Dec. 2020

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