assent

Meanings

• Noun

  An agreement or approval, often formal or expressed out loud.

  - "The committee gave its assent to the proposal."
  - "She received his assent to the plan."

• Verb

  To give consent or agreement, especially formally.

  - "The senate must assent to the bill before it becomes law."
  - "He assented to her request."

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Pronunciation

1. /əˈsɛnt/
   
   
   
   Source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18198787"

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Synonyms

approval , consent , sanction , affirm , allow , astipulate , aver , soothe , stipulate , consent

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with assent
assert , caress , dissent , insist

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Variants

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assent , assented , assenter , assenters , assenting , assentor , assentors , assents

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Etymology

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From Old French assentir ‘consent, agree’, from assent ‘agreement, accord’, from Latin assentire ‘to sit together, agree’, from ad ‘to’ + sentire ‘to feel’.

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Trivia

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1. Assent is a palindromic word in English, meaning it reads the same backward as forward.

2. The term 'assent' is derived from the Latin word 'assentire', which means 'to sit together'. This may refer to the idea of people coming together to agree on something.

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Related Concepts

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1. consent: Assent is a type of consent, often formal and explicit.

2. agreement: Assent is a form of agreement between two or more parties.

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Quotes

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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,{it}Profession{/it},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,{it}Village Voice{/it},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,{it}New York Times Book Review{/it},28 Sept.1986

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Culture

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Assent has been used extensively in literature, particularly in legal and political contexts. For instance, Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' includes the famous line, 'Et tu, Brute?' which translates to 'And you, Brutus?' and is often interpreted as Caesar seeking assent or agreement from Brutus before his assassination.

How to Memorize "assent"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a group of people nodding their heads in agreement, signifying their assent.
   - Imagine a legal document being signed, symbolizing the formal assent of all parties involved.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'assent' with 'agreement' or 'consent'.
   - Think of the word 'assent' as meaning 'approval' or 'acceptance'.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Assent means agreement.'
   - Remember 'Assent' is 'agreement' spelled differently'.

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