assent

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• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Homophone: ascent

From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb).

assent (third-person singular simple present assents, present participle assenting, simple past and past participle assented)

1. (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:

     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

2. (intransitive) To admit a thing as true.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:9:

     And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

• (give approval): consent; See also Thesaurus:assent
• (admit a thing as true): affirm, allow, astipulate, aver, soothe, stipulate

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assent (countable and uncountable, plural assents)

1. 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.

• approval, consent, sanction; See also Thesaurus:approval

• assentor

• antses, sanest, snaste, stanes, steans

(deprecated template usage) assent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assō