assent
verb
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assents
Definition of assent
(Entry 1 of 2)
: to agree to or approve of something (such as an idea or suggestion) especially after thoughtful consideration : concur
assent to a proposal
assent
noun
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Definition of assent (Entry 2 of 2)
: an act of agreeing to something especially after thoughtful consideration : an act of assenting : acquiescence, agreement
She gave her assent to the proposal.
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assentor
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Synonyms & Antonyms for assent
Synonyms: Verb
accede, acquiesce, agree, come round, consent, subscribe
Antonyms: Verb
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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
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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 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 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. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
To suspend Parliament, the prime minister must acquire the assent of the British sovereign. — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, "The Queen Approves a Suspension of Parliament amid Brexit Controversy," 29 Aug. 2019 Trump and his businesses appear to have repeatedly defied that provision over the past two years, with the quiet assent of Republican lawmakers. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, "Trump’s Latest Get-Rich-Quick Scheme," 26 Aug. 2019 There is an obsessive quality to all this that neither seeks nor requires the reader’s assent. — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, "Murder Italian Style," 19 Aug. 2019 Officials familiar with the development said Paul raised the idea with Trump at a golf outing and the president nodded his assent. — Washington Post, "Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran faces key test," 27 July 2019 Trump’s grip on the Republican primary electorate means candidates often need his support—or at least his silent assent—to win. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, "The Banality of Lindsey Graham," 22 July 2019 But there’s a sizeable hitch: no monarch has so directly involved themselves in the country’s politics since 1707, when Queen Anne refused royal assent to a bill. — Billy Perrigo, Time, "Could Queen Elizabeth Stop a 'No Deal' Brexit?," 19 July 2019 In the agreement reached Friday, Mexico did not assent to those changes. — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, "Trump Calls Off Plan to Impose Tariffs on Mexico," 7 June 2019 In short, in order to change the statewide election system, reformers in Mississippi would need the assent of those who benefit the most from it. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, "Mississippi Quotes John Roberts to Defend Its Racist Election Law," 19 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'assent.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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